Clone of rhel4 update 4 in VC doesn't work

[xiphias]

I have a virtual server that I want to clone.

This should be easy in VC, I thought....

The master virtual server is loaded with rhel4 update 4. (20GB disk assigned)

I stop the virtual server and right click on the server, chose clone.

Give it a new name, assign storage pool etc....basicly just clicking next, next, next....

Then the cloning takes place, around 5 min...

When I try to boot the new clone it just goes to network boot.

Yes, I've checked the bios setup and put cdrom and harddrive before the network.

Then I tried to boot from a rhel4u4 iso image, going into rescue mode.

Did a "#fdisk -l" and it complained about the partitioning table beeing corrupt.

Am I missing something essential here?? I thought cloning should be straightforward!!

[xiphias]

I hit the post-button a little bit early 😕

I have esx 3.0.1 Don't remember precisely the version of VC, since I don't have access to it from where I'm right now. But it's 2.x something. Was installed in January 2007.

[xiphias]

I've managed to solve this problem myself. Someone had taken a snapshot of the virtual machine that I wanted to clone. This prevented cloning from VC to work.

After I deleted the snapshot and made a new clone, everything worked fine.

There were no errors indicating that something was wrong in VC.

Btw I have VC 2.01 build 32042

Is this a bug or a feature?