[libvirt] how to duplicate an vm?

[Dan Bar Dov]

Thanks, I was not aware of virt-clone.
Dan

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:58:00PM +0200, Dan Bar Dov wrote:
> > I am trying to duplicate an existing vm.
> > While the VM was down, I copied the image file, copied the xml file and
> > manually fixed the xml file to have a different VM name, and point to the
> > copy.
> >
> > The copy now works, but the original disappraeed from virt-manager. When
> I
> > try to "restore" it I get:
> > Error restoring domain '/var/lib/libvirt/images/fc11-copy.img': operation
> > failed: image magic is incorrect
> >
> > What am I doing wrong/how should I replicate a VM?
>
> Did you change the UUID and network mac address?
>
> We also have a tool that does this called virt-clone.  It might
> be safer/easier to use the tool instead of doing it by hand.
>
> Rich.
>
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