[virt-tools-list] howto use storage pools for cloning?

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Mar 15 15:25:54 UTC 2010


On 03/15/2010 05:39 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> How can I tell virt-clone to allocate storage from a
> storage pool, not knowing which kind of pool this is?
> 
> Running "virsh vol-clone" is too painful, because I
> do not know the name of the original pool, either.
> 
> Sorry for asking, but the man page doesn't tell. Google
> doesn't know either, as it seems.
> 

You can just specify the full path to the new storage. If the
destination pool is  /dest/pool, just use

--file /dest/pool/new_volume_name.img

Or did I misunderstand what you mean?

- Cole




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