Re: [libvirt-users] Clone VM
On 01/16/2012 04:44 AM, Boris Tobotras wrote:
Greets,
I've began to try libvirt API and looking for most correct way to clone
existing VM (Xen server if it matters).
Since API lacks this functionality how does one usually go about it?
Thanks in advance,
There isn't a single 'clone' api. You would basically need to copy the guests
underlying storage using something like virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom, and define
a new guest based on an edited version of the original domain XML. You can
check out the virt-clone tool for an example:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=python-virtinst.git;a=blob_plain;f=vir...
And that is only the superficial duplication from outside the VM, no changes
are done to the guest OS.