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