[et-mgmt-tools] Copying Images for VMM

[Bryan Christ]

Thank you!  I will try that.

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:09 +0000, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Bryan Christ wrote:
> > Thanks for the URL.  I looked at the virt-clone tool, but it only lets
> > you clone images on a local host.  I need to copy my *.img file from my
> > laptop to my desktop.  I tried manually copying the file
> > from /var/lib/libvirt/images but I think there's an extra step (or more)
> > that I need to do.
> >
> > Does anyone know?
> >
> 
> You'll need to transfer the vm configuration as well.
> 
> (on source host) virsh dumpxml vmname > vmname.xml
> copy vmname.xml from src to dest
> (on dest host) virsh define vmname.xml
> 
> If the .img is at the same path on the new host, and you
> have a similar network setup, machine arch, distro etc,
> it should just work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cole
>