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

[Michael DeHaan]

Cole Robinson wrote:
> 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
>   

virt-image options.

And you're right on disks :)