# VM disk "save as" option locked and VM remains in hotplug state

**URL:** <https://forum.opennebula.io/t/vm-disk-save-as-option-locked-and-vm-remains-in-hotplug-state/7914>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 15, 2019, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/vm-disk-save-as-option-locked-and-vm-remains-in-hotplug-state/7914 "2019-12-15T07:17:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Priya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Priya](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/Priya)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/vm-disk-save-as-option-locked-and-vm-remains-in-hotplug-state/7914/1 "2019-12-15T07:17:56Z")

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Hi,

Usually, I follow the disk “save as” option in sunstone to save a disk of a running VM. So far there were no issues. But today when I tried to save a disk (by “save as”), I am facing some problems. The VM remains in the hotplug state and the image in locked state.

Opennebula version: OpenNebula 5.6.1  
Hypervisor: KVM  
OS: Ubuntu 18.04

There are no errors inside oned.log. The VM log is “New LCM state is HOTPLUG\_SAVEAS”.

I stuck at this point. How can we check what’s happening? Please help me to solve the problem.

Thanks.