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

[Cole Robinson]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>   
>>> The koan command, when run:
>>>
>>> (a) copies the xml file from NFS to some directory
>>> (b) copies the disk from NFS to some directory
>>> (c) performs minimal xml surgery to fix up path URLs and replace any mac 
>>> addresses the best it can using mac info stored in cobbler or randomly 
>>> generated
>>>     
>> 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.
>>
>>   
> That's even better. So it is possible to reuse --disk and --mac for 
> multiple disks/macs, then?
> 
> 

I'm a bit confused: are you talking cobbler/koan options or virt-image
options? If the latter, there is no --disk option, since it pulls all
that info from the image xml. Multiple --network and --mac options
can be specified though.

- Cole