Re: [libvirt-users] How to copy snapshots of a VM to the other computer.

On 02/01/2013 12:13 AM, Jonghee Youn wrote: This part is fine. That is not the recommended way to do things - it _might_ work if you are using the same version of libvirt on both computers, and libvirtd is _not_ running on the destination. However, the _preferred_ method, and the only way that is guaranteed to work if libvirtd is newer on the destination than on the source, or if libvirtd is already running on the destination, is to use various 'virsh *dumpxml' commands on the source followed by 'virsh *define' on the destination. Do 'virsh snapshot-list $dom --tree' on the source. Then, for each snapshot in the list in tree order, do 'virsh snapshot-dumpxml $dom $name --security-info > file' on the source, then 'virsh snapshot-create $dom file --redefine' on the destination. If you also want to preserve which snapshot is current, use 'virsh snapshot-current $dom --name' on the source, the use the --current flag when re-creating that particular name on the destination. Someday, I'd like to make it easier to do domain migration, including snapshots, all from a single virsh command, but we aren't quite there yet. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org