On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 08:28 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 13:10:43 +0100 > John Horne wrote: > > > As said, the images already exist and will be available to the F17 PC, > > so things like using virsh 'dumpxml' then 'create' don't seem to work > > since they are trying to create an image that already exists. > > Actually dumpxml and create are exactly what you want. You do the > dumpxml on your current machine and the create (using that xml file) > on the new machine (modifying the location of the image file in the > xml if it doesn't appear to be in the same place on the new machine). > > The same xml files dumpxml print are stashed in /etc/libvirt/qemu, > so you can copy them over from there. > Thanks for this (and Frank's reply). It was the XML file bit of info that I was missing.
A quick bit of testing and it seems if I do 'virsh define ...' then the VM XML file is recreated in /etc/libvirt/qemu. I can then start up the VM with no problems. If I do 'virsh create ...' instead, then it seems to start the VM, but does not create a new XML file in /etc/libvirt/qemu. So once I shutdown the VM, I cannot restart it again unless I do a 'virsh create...' again. Using the 'virsh define' command solves this (as mentioned above). Anyway, thanks. I'll make sure I have /etc/libvirt/qemu backed up, and will use the 'virsh define' command to restore the definitions of the VMs. John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
