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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones <http://people.redhat.com/%7Erjones> New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw