Re: [libvirt] Is there an API for clone?
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:42:27AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:30:28AM +0800, 黄亮 wrote:
> Hi, guys
>
> I know there is a command "virt-clone", but I couldn't find the
> equivalent API here : http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html
> So, is there an API to clone an existing VM or not?
The virt-clone tool is implemented by running a large number of
individual libvirt APIs. There's no API that does everything in
one go, because that would be an application specific use case.
In addition you can't clone a VM just using libvirt APIs:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/tip-my-procedure-for-cloning-a-fedo...
On Windows you'd probably want to run the sysprep program.
This is a bug in the virt-clone tool:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524269
And for completeness:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638188
Rich.
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