Oracle VM : Failed To Create VM from Virtual Appliance (Doc ID 2847854.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

Unable to create a VM with a virtual appliance.
The VM creating failed with the following error message:

####<2022-01-22T02:15:49.134+0800> <Error> <com.oracle.ovm.mgr.api.job.InternalJob> <bir-ovm> <AdminServer> <Odof Tcp Client Thread: /127.0.0.1:54321/1132610> <> <> <03d368d1-693a-40ac-b4f9-c4cb0b6fb99e-00000004> <1642788949134> <BEA-000000> <Job: Create VM from Virtual Appliance VM: VM-Name-XYZ, Time: 1642786918409, Internal Error (Operation) OVMAPI_5001E Job: 1642786918409/Create VM from Virtual Appliance VM: VM-Name-XYZ/Create VM from Virtual Appliance VM: VM-Name-XYZ, failed. Job Failure Event: 1642788949100/Server Async Command Failed/OVMEVT_00C014D_001 Async command failed on server: Oracle-VM-Server-hostname. Object: cfgFile_0004fb0000060000e30d921054ad4cc2, PID: 27372, Server error: Command failed: cmds ([['cat', u'/OVS/Repositories/Repository-UUID/Assemblies/1108137d47/unpacked/0004fb00001200003e951db0e4064a8b.vmdk'], ['vbox-img', 'convert', '--stdin', '--srcformat', 'vmdk', '--dstformat', 'raw', '--stdout'], ['cp', '--sparse=always', '/dev/stdin', '/OVS/Repositories/Repository-UUID/VirtualDisks/3a4a42984d4e42b7b29b64d55a7e6cd1.img']]) output file (None) success_return_codes (0,)) rc (1) stdout () stderr (cp: writing '/OVS/Repositories/Repository-UUID/VirtualDisks/3a4a42984d4e42b7b29b64d55a7e6cd1.img': No space left on device), on server: Oracle-VM-Server-hostname, associated with object: cfgFile_0004fb0000060000e30d921054ad4cc2 [Sat Jan 22 02:15:49 PST 2022]
com.oracle.ovm.mgr.api.exception.JobFailureException: OVMAPI_5001E Job: 1642786918409/Create VM from Virtual Appliance VM: VM-Name-XYZ/Create VM from Virtual Appliance VM: VM-Name-XYZ, failed. Job Failure Event: 1642788949100/Server Async Command Failed/OVMEVT_00C014D_001 Async command failed on server: Oracle-VM-Server-hostname. Object: cfgFile_0004fb0000060000e30d921054ad4cc2, PID: 27372,

Server error: Command failed: cmds ([['cat', u'/OVS/Repositories/Repository-UUID/Assemblies/1108137d47/unpacked/0004fb00001200003e951db0e4064a8b.vmdk'], ['vbox-img', 'convert', '--stdin', '--srcformat', 'vmdk', '--dstformat', 'raw', '--stdout'], ['cp', '--sparse=always', '/dev/stdin', '/OVS/Repositories/Repository-UUID/VirtualDisks/3a4a42984d4e42b7b29b64d55a7e6cd1.img']]) output file (None) success_return_codes (0,)) rc (1) stdout () stderr (cp: writing '/OVS/Repositories/Repository-UUID/VirtualDisks/3a4a42984d4e42b7b29b64d55a7e6cd1.img': No space left on device <<<<<

The Virtual appliance had the virtual disk with the following space requirements:

Changes

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Cause

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