How to Live Clone or Backup a Virtual Machine and Avoid The Error : The memory limit cannot be different than the current memory size on an HVM/PVHVM Virtual Machine (Doc ID 2680957.1)

Last updated on JUNE 17, 2020

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Goal

How to live clone a guest using OVM Manager version 3.4.6.2 and higher.

If not following this procedure, the following error might be hit:

Error creating virtual machine snapshot. OVMRU_005041E Virtual Machine: 0004fb00000600001644034b63b7f08b. The memory limit cannot be different than the current memory size on an HVM/PVHVM Virtual Machine.
 

Solution

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