[libvirt] Is there an API for clone?

黄亮 lancerhuang at 163.com
Fri Nov 12 02:11:09 UTC 2010


Hi Richard,

Thank you for your information, I'll look into it.

Regards

2010-11-12 



Lancer 



发件人: Richard W.M. Jones 
发送时间: 2010-11-11  06:21:04 
收件人: Daniel P. Berrange 
抄送: 黄亮; libvir-list 
主题: Re: [libvirt] Is there an API for clone? 
 
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:42:27AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:30:28AM +0800, 黄亮 wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> The virt-clone tool is implemented by running a large number of
> individual libvirt APIs. There's no API that does everything in
> one go, because that would be an application specific use case.
In addition you can't clone a VM just using libvirt APIs:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/tip-my-procedure-for-cloning-a-fedora-vm/
On Windows you'd probably want to run the sysprep program.
This is a bug in the virt-clone tool:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524269
And for completeness:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638188
Rich.
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