Oracle Linux: While Creating a Snapshot on an Exadata Hypervisor, virsh is Failed with "error: unsupported configuration: external snapshot file for disk sda already exists and is not a block device: /EXAVMIMAGES/GuestImages/<guest>/System.backup-<guest>" (Doc ID 3028852.1)

Last updated on JUNE 19, 2024

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.9 and later
Linux x86-64

While creating a snapshot on an exadata hypervisor, virsh is failing with below error:

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