Some additional information that I have found since yesterday: When I create a volume like this: <volume> <name>coreos00.disk</name> <capacity unit="bytes">9116319744</capacity> <target> <format type="raw"></format> <permissions> <mode>644</mode> </permissions> </target> <backingStore> <path>vmdisks/coreos_2023</path> <format type="raw"></format> </backingStore> </volume> Which does not seem to work with the backing store either as it creates an empty volume without the underlying parent. But when I now delete the volume via rbd and create a new clone it shows up in libvirt and can be used by the machine. # rbd -p vmdisks rm coreos00.disk # rbd clone vmdisks/coreos_2023@basis vmdisks/coreos00.disk Sadly this is not a very efficient way to create the clones I would say. Anyone got any, like literally any, ideas what might be wrong in this setup? _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users