[et-mgmt-tools] Idea/help with virt-clone?

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Jul 14 20:13:23 UTC 2008


Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Actually the nature of the virt-image format is that you shouldn't
>> need to do any xml surgery, it is (ideally) completely portable. Specific
>> things like memory amounts and mac addresses are specified at the time
>> virt-image is called: see virt-image --help for all the goodies that
>> can be specified.
>> tools
> But ideally, the initial virt image xml would contain the memory and cpu 
> settings from the source system.. since that is as close to a template 
> as we have.
> 
> -- bk
> 

Oh, yes that's true. I forgot that mem and vcpu recommendations can be
in the image xml. Thankfully though the virt-image removes any need
to manually alter xml.

- Cole




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