Re: Moving a virtual machine

[Phil Meyer]

On 06/03/2010 01:59 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>  I set up a virtual machine in virt-manager on one machine, and now
> I'd
>  like to port it to another machine.  I copied /var/lib/libvirt to the
>  other machine, but the VM doesn't show up in the list of VMs in
>  virt-manager.
>
>  I must be missing something, but I'm not sure what.  Does anyone know?
>  Is there something that needs to be set?
>
>  The copy of /var/lib/libvirt is on a removable USB drive, and I
>  symlinked the directory on the target machine to the directory on the
>  disk.  Do I need to do something more?
>
>  TIA.
>      
You will also need the xml file that defines the VM from:
     /etc/libvirt/qemu/<VMname.xml>

You could also set up permissions between the two systems and 'virsh 
migrate' the VM over as well.

Good luck!