[libvirt] Is there an API for clone?

[黄亮]

Hi Alex

Thank you for your reply.
I just wanna make sure I'm not misunderstanding, virStorageVolGetXMLDesc & virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom together can do the clone process, am I right?

Regards


2010-11-12 



Lancer 



发件人： Alex Jia 
发送时间： 2010-11-10  13:28:21 
收件人： 黄亮 
抄送： libvir-list 
主题： Re: [libvirt] Is there an API for clone? 
 
Hi lancer,
As Osier said, libvirt hasn't a independent API for cloning an
existing guest, instead of using virStorageVolGetXMLDesc API to 
get a guest volume xml description and then calling  
virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom API to clone a new volume.
For python-virtinst component, you may use virt-clone to implement
this, for libvirt component, you may directly use python binding
API or virsh tool 'vol-clone' to implement it.
I hope it's helpful for you.
- Alex
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Subject: [libvirt] Is there an API for clone?
Hi, guys 
I know there is a command "virt-clone", but I couldn't find the equivalent API here : http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html 
So, is there an API to clone an existing VM or not? 
Thank you! 
Regards 
2010-11-10 
Lancer 
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