On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:

I personally find it easier to use virt-manager or virt-install or gnome-boxes to create an initial guest template, then to modify that XML for any final tweaks before using the guest in earnest.

Right, but the lack of provisioning is a huge miss. Before to use a remote tool (libvirt), you must 1/ connect on the remote machine, 2/ create a xml file and 3/ define the domain.

how easy it would be to add guest templating directly into libvirt, nor whether it would be duplicating effort that has already been coded elsewhere.

Integrating virt-install & virt-clone would be imho very good start point. -- Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com> Twitter: @sdouche / G+: +sdouche