[SOLVED] How to clone a guest virtual machine that has a passthrough drive?

[verulian]

I have a guest Windows virtual machine that has a passthrough mapped hard drive and I want to clone this virtual machine without the passthrough drive. When I attempt to clone the guest vm I get an error:

unable to parse volume ID '/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST4000VN008-421156_ZAV43AS' (500)

Clearly this is due to the passthrough drive, but I'm not clear on how to work around this. I suppose I could remove and re-add? But for some reason that sounds a little dicey/scary in that it might cause some problems somehow..... Probably being paranoid, but just wanted to see if there's a recommended way of dealing with this.

 

[verulian]

Meh, I went ahead and did it against my fears of buggering something up. I simply did a "Detatch" from the Hardware tab for the guest vm and then back in terminal I remapped it again with qm set 102 -scsi2 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST4000VN008-421156_ZAV43AS.

Did the job and no apparent problems.