A stateless or pooled VM failed to restart, reporting "Bad Volume Specification"and "Cannot prepare illegal volume"

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Issue

  • A pooled VM failed to restart, reporting Bad Volume Specification and Cannot prepare illegal volume.

  • Another symptom could be that the VM will fail to start because a snapshot is still in a locked state.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.6
  • Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.0, 4.1

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