Unable to clone VM when powered on

josenk / terraform-provider-esxi

Terraform-provider-esxi plugin

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Unable to clone VM when powered on #109

Closed vikas-nyt closed 4 years ago

vikas-nyt commented 4 years ago

Hi Josenk ,

Is there any way to clone VM when it is powered on .I am able to clone when it is powered off . I am getting below error when i try to clone while powered on

Error: There was an ovftool Error: Opening VI source: vi://root@10.7.47.15:443/vmstatic02 Error: vim.fault.TaskInProgress Completed with errors

exit status 1

I am using the code which you have posted .Please advice if any work around to clone while it is powered on.

josenk commented 4 years ago

That is a limitation of ovftool. You cannot clone while it's powered on.