So I have just taken backups from a 20.04 Focal machine and reinstalled focal and tried to import the exported images and I am getting this error.
I have Googled it and I have seen that Stephane wrote that it is to do with a versioning problem. But this leaves me confused as both LXD instances where installed via Snap which means they should be at the latest version and I only exported the machine an hour before I tried to import it on the new machine.
Can I just remove the volatile.cloud-init.instance-id key from the machine_name/index.yaml file, or will that break it?
How can I get rid of this error?
Thanks.
UPDATE:
I extracted the MACHINE_NAME_HERE.tar.gz that got made from the lxc export
command and ran grep -r "volatile.cloud-init.instance-id" /MACHINE_NAME_HERE
and found the key in a couple of places and deleted it.
I then repackaged it up as tar -vzcf MACHINE_NAME_HERE.tar.gz MACHINE_NAME_HERE
and ran lxc import MACHINE_NAME_HERE
and it imported no problem. Then all I had to do was run lxc start MACHINE_NAME_HERE
and it was back to how it was.