Re: [libvirt] how to duplicate an vm?
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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