[virt-tools-list] Does virt-manager support virt-clone "like" ?

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Fri May 13 17:10:22 UTC 2016


On 05/13/2016 12:18 PM, Leno Hou wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> *As we all know, we can use virt-clone as following cases.*
> 
>   * virt-clone from disk to image
> 
>            #virt-clone --original ubuntu --name ubuntu-image1 --file
> /var/lib/libvirt/images/ubuntu1.qcow2
> 
>   * virt-clone from disk to disk
> 
>            #virt-clone --original ubuntu --name ubuntu-dm1 --file
> /dev/mapper/36005076303ffc52a0000000000001372 --check all=off
> 
>   * virt-clone from image to image
> 
>            #virt-clone --original ubuntu --name ubuntu-image2 --file
> /var/lib/libvirt/images/ubuntu2.qcow2
> 
>   * virt-clone from image to disk
> 
>            #virt-clone --original ubuntu --name ubuntu-dm2 --file
> /dev/mapper/36005076303ffc52a0000000000001373 --check all=off
> 
> *When running  **virt-manager to connect  remote server, the customer told me
> that **virt-manager  can't clone disk.*
> *
> *
> *Could we support virt-manager UI as virt-clone like ? Thanks.*
> 

virt-manager does have a UI front end for cloning. Right click the VM in the
manager window and select 'Clone...'

If that's not working, please provide detailed steps of what the user is
trying with the UI, and what error it's throwing

- Cole




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