Oracle VM: Cloning a VM Fails with "Unable to query ocfs2 device "/dev/mapper/xxx": open: I/O error on channel while opening context for device /dev/mapper/xxx \nNo device open" (Doc ID 2686109.1)

Last updated on MAY 16, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Cloning a VM Fails With Below Error:

Internal Error: OVMAPI_5001E Job:Clone Vm: DMS-Staging.0 in Server Pool: <pool_name>/Clone Vm: DMS-Staging.0 in Server Pool: <pool_name>, failed. Job Failure Event: Server
Async command failed on server:<server_name> Server error: 'Unable to query ocfs2 device "/dev/mapper/xxx": open: I/O error on channel while opening context for device 
/dev/mapper/xxx\nNo device open\nNo device open\n' , on server:<server_name>

Cause

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