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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Samuel Thampy <samjiks@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 March 2021 22:11<br>
<b>To:</b> libvirt-users@redhat.com <libvirt-users@redhat.com><br>
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I have a storage backend san disks, I have five servers which is KVM hosted guests.</div>
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I am looking to clone an image of a guest machine, so I can use a new VM form the image on a different server.. </div>
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I am not sure what the best way. But when I do that, I get a memory error, and need to xfs_repair and damages the original machine.</div>
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My steps are </div>
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One vm machine on the same server</div>
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<li>dd create original vm to template.img</li><li>lvcreate -L 9G -n <vol-name> <pool></li><li>dd template.img to /dev/<pool>/<vol-name></li><li>virsh define <vm_name>.xml</li></ul>
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another vm machine on the secondary server</div>
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<li>copy template.img to another server</li><li>lvcreate -L 9G -n <vol-name> <pool></li><li>dd if=template.img of=/dev/<pool>/<vol-name></li><li>virsh define <vm_name>.xml</li></ul>
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<div>May I know the steps are missing something because both are getting corrupted. Thanks for your help.</div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Regards</span><br>
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