Restoring snapshot fails with: "Data volume should have either Source or SourceRef, or be externally populated"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to restore a Virtual Machine snapshot
Failed to create restore DataVolume: admission webhook datavolume-validate.cdi.kubevirt.io denied the request: Data volume should have either Source or SourceRef, or be externally populated

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
  • OpenShift Virtualization 4.16

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