Thanks, I was not aware of virt-clone. Dan On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:58:00PM +0200, Dan Bar Dov wrote: > > I am trying to duplicate an existing vm. > > While the VM was down, I copied the image file, copied the xml file and > > manually fixed the xml file to have a different VM name, and point to the > > copy. > > > > The copy now works, but the original disappraeed from virt-manager. When > I > > try to "restore" it I get: > > Error restoring domain '/var/lib/libvirt/images/fc11-copy.img': operation > > failed: image magic is incorrect > > > > What am I doing wrong/how should I replicate a VM? > > Did you change the UUID and network mac address? > > We also have a tool that does this called virt-clone. It might > be safer/easier to use the tool instead of doing it by hand. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones <http://people.redhat.com/%7Erjones> > New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows > programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw >
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