Copying Images for VMM
 

Hello Bryan

I hope following page will help.
http://libvirt.org/apps.html

Thanks
Atsushi SAKAI



Bryan Christ <bryan.christ@hp.com> wrote:

> Please accept my apologies if this is not the right form for Virtual
> Machine Manager questions.
>
> I was wondering if someone could point me to documentation on image
> management. In short I have WinXP guest machine on my laptop running on
> KVM and would like to copy that image to another computer.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bryan
>
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Thanks for the URL. I looked at the virt-clone tool, but it only lets
you clone images on a local host. I need to copy my *.img file from my
laptop to my desktop. I tried manually copying the file
from /var/lib/libvirt/images but I think there's an extra step (or more)
that I need to do.

Does anyone know?

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 00:39 +0000, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
> Hello Bryan
>
> I hope following page will help.
> http://libvirt.org/apps.html
>
> Thanks
> Atsushi SAKAI
>
>
>
> Bryan Christ <bryan.christ@hp.com> wrote:
>
> > Please accept my apologies if this is not the right form for Virtual
> > Machine Manager questions.
> >
> > I was wondering if someone could point me to documentation on image
> > management. In short I have WinXP guest machine on my laptop running on
> > KVM and would like to copy that image to another computer.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > et-mgmt-tools mailing list
> > et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
>
>

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Bryan Christ wrote:
> Thanks for the URL. I looked at the virt-clone tool, but it only lets
> you clone images on a local host. I need to copy my *.img file from my
> laptop to my desktop. I tried manually copying the file
> from /var/lib/libvirt/images but I think there's an extra step (or more)
> that I need to do.
>
> Does anyone know?
>

You'll need to transfer the vm configuration as well.

(on source host) virsh dumpxml vmname > vmname.xml
copy vmname.xml from src to dest
(on dest host) virsh define vmname.xml

If the .img is at the same path on the new host, and you
have a similar network setup, machine arch, distro etc,
it should just work.

Thanks,
Cole

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Thank you! I will try that.

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:09 +0000, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Bryan Christ wrote:
> > Thanks for the URL. I looked at the virt-clone tool, but it only lets
> > you clone images on a local host. I need to copy my *.img file from my
> > laptop to my desktop. I tried manually copying the file
> > from /var/lib/libvirt/images but I think there's an extra step (or more)
> > that I need to do.
> >
> > Does anyone know?
> >
>
> You'll need to transfer the vm configuration as well.
>
> (on source host) virsh dumpxml vmname > vmname.xml
> copy vmname.xml from src to dest
> (on dest host) virsh define vmname.xml
>
> If the .img is at the same path on the new host, and you
> have a similar network setup, machine arch, distro etc,
> it should just work.
>
> Thanks,
> Cole
>

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