[et-mgmt-tools] import existing vms into virt-manager

[Bryan Kearney]

thanks. I did not see in the docs.. is there an xsd for the xml file?

-- bk


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:50:43PM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>   
>> I have been trying to get xen and kvm up and running, and have 
>> eventually done so by setting up a bridge and defining the vm through 
>> command line. I launch them now with the following commands:
>>
>> qemu-kvm
>>    -hda /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-virtFactory
>>    -boot c
>>    -net nic,macaddr=52:64:60:12:34:78,vlan0
>>    -net tap,vlan0
>>    -m 256
>>
>> I would like to start using the virt-* tools directly. Is there a way 
>> for me to import this information into virt manager? Both the wizard and 
>> virt-install assume I am starting with the bare install.
>>     
>
> At this time there's no official easy way to do it.  
>
> If you have pre-installed disk images either, manually write XML config
> to go wit hit and use 'virsh define foo.xml'. Or run 'virt-install' pointing
> it to your existing disk, and let it boot up into the installer. Then just
> use 'virsh destroy' to shutdown the installer. The installer won't have
> done any damage to your disks at that point, but virt-install will have 
> written out a permanent config file which yuo can now use with 'virsh start'.
>
> I plan to add a '--import' flag to virt-install to make this a little more
> pleasant where it'd just check your disk image for a valid boot sector and
> if so write out the config & skip the booting of installer altogether.
>
> Regards,
> Dan.
>