Not able to clone VM to LVM-Thin

ExtolCorp

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Dear friends,

I am having some trouble while cloning VM to LVM-Thin, but able to place disk image in LVM-Thin. Please share your experience with me in regards to a similar encounter.

Proxmox Version:
6.2-4

Error:
UPID:dr01:00000B65:0000ECEE:5EE0A528:qmclone:1000:root@pam: 1 5EE0A6E4 clone failed: command '/sbin/lvs --separator : --noheadings --units b --unbuffered --nosuffix --options lv_size /dev/pve/vm-400-disk-0' failed: got timeout

LVM-Thin Capacity
1.7TB

Hardware:
DELL PowerEdge R710 (16 Cores, 64GB RAM)

Drive Type:
RAID5
500GB x 6 Units + 1spare
 

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Dear friends,

I faced the same issue and posted a question in here but to no avail. I initially installed version 6.1-7 later upgraded to version 6.2-6. I found a workaround to this issue with a little trial and error session.

My finding;

1st situation - able to clone the source VM successfully while the VM is in running state, otherwise I get an error message like this "VM 100 qmp command failed - VM 100 not running"

2nd situation - able to clone the source VM successfully while the VM is in the stopped state, to do this I had left the "Qemu Agent" checkbox unticked under the "System" tab when I spun new VM.

LVM Configuration
LVM - 500GB
LVM-Thin 1.7TB
 

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