Symptoms:
- The error "A general system error occurred: missing vmsn file" appears when you clone a virtual machine from a snapshot of a template.
- Virtual machines which are cloned from Virtual machine objects are created successfully.
- In the vpxd.log file, you see entries similar to:
vmodl.fault.SystemError: (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [],
msg = 'A general system error occurred: missing vmsn file',
faultCause = <unset>,
faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [],
reason = 'missing vmsn file'}