A Namespace was deleted, triggering deletion of all resources within the namespace, including a VM that had deletion protection enabled.

The VM was not deleted, as is expected with the feature enabled. However, it wasn't possible to disable deletion protection.

ocrm1 patch vm fedora --type json -p '[{"op": "remove", "path": "/metadata/labels/kubevirt.io~1vm-delete-protection"}]' -n <namespace>
The request is invalid: spec.instancetype: Failure to find instancetype: controllerrevisions.apps "fedora-u1.large-v1beta1-e6dd3092-e1fe-496b-a1ba-0afd3ffe7e36-1" not found

I guess that the instancetype and preference resources were deleted when the namespace deletion was triggered.

Cluster is ROSA 4.19.7 w/ OpenShift Virtualization 4.19.6.

1. Create a VM
2. Enable deletion protection on the VM configuration
3. Delete the namespace containing the VM

Was not able to remove deletion protection and unblock the deletion of the VM and Namespace.

Should be able to remove deletion protection.

Workaround:
ocrm1 patch vm fedora --type json -p '[{"op": "remove", "path": "/metadata/labels/kubevirt.io~1vm-delete-protection"}, {"op": "remove", "path": "/spec/instancetype"}, {"op": "remove", "path": "/spec/preference"}]' -n <namespace>