migrate libvirt config between machines

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 09:28:36AM +0100, Michal Prívozník wrote:
> On 11/29/21 17:37, daggs wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I'd like to migrate my current libvirt config from one machine to another, what is the best way to do so?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> 
> Do you mean domain/network/... XMLs or {libvirtd,qemu,...}.config files?
> 
> For the former I suggest 'virsh dumpxml $dom > dom.xml' and copying over
> the file onto new machine and defining the domain again 'virsh define
> dom.xml' (s/dumpxml/net-dumpxml/ and s/define/net-define/ for networks
> and so on).
> 
> If you run new enough libvirt there's even 'virsh migrate --offline'
> that encapsulates steps from above.

NB, i'm not sure this is clever enough to copy across the TPM state or
the EDK variables state, if you're using such feature.


Regards,
Daniel
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