Re: Live migration to another volume at the same host

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 05:45:46PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Yes, you don't need to use live migration for this even. The "blockcopy" command can be used to copy contents of a VMs current disk into a new file. If you use the "--pivot" arg, then QEMU will switch to using the new file too. eg something like this: $ virsh blockcopy rhel8x86_64 --transient-job --pivot \ --path /var/lib/libvirt/images/orig.img \ --dest /var/lib/libvirt/images/new.img If the file doesn't already exist, libvirt will create it. Having said that I'm not sure if it preserves format. So might need to pre-create files if you're using qcow2. Test it on a throw-away guest disk first ... Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|