Replicated the solution in this forum post. It worked.
[SOLVED] After Clone virtual guest gets into emergency mode
WORKAROUND:
1. Open /etc/lvm/lvm.conf file with text editor
2. Searched "use_devicesfile" in file for: use_devices
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# use_devicesfile = 1
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use_devicesfile = 0
Now boots up correctly. All Logical Volumes are now available, mapped and working.
Only one thing bothers me. Is this storing up trouble for later?
I mean, just cloning a VM shouldn't cause this problem, so there is clearly some issue in the cloning of RedHat 9.2 variants in VirtualBox.
And if I carry on using the VM with this "fix" in place, am I likely to hit a worse problem later. There's no way to know...
Since I have the option, I will continue using Oracle Linux 8.8 until this cloning problem is resolved.