I'm installing Fedora 12 (full install, no upgrade) on my laptop where I have some virtual machines configured via F11's virt-manager.
After installation I'd like to recover from a backup the existing virtual machines; is there any documentation on the proper/recommended/safer method for doing the job?
TIA
G.
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:29:08 +0100 Gianluca Sforna wrote:
After installation I'd like to recover from a backup the existing virtual machines; is there any documentation on the proper/recommended/safer method for doing the job?
What has worked for me is doing "virsh dumpxml" to save the machine def on f11, then "virsh define" to reload the xml on f12. (As long as libvirt is configured the same way first, which for me means getting my bridge defined for bridge networking).
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 23:29 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
I'm installing Fedora 12 (full install, no upgrade) on my laptop where I have some virtual machines configured via F11's virt-manager.
After installation I'd like to recover from a backup the existing virtual machines; is there any documentation on the proper/recommended/safer method for doing the job?
Not sure if we have any nice documentation on this, but it should simply be a matter of backing up and restoring the guest's XML configuration and disk images.
Cheers, Mark.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Mark McLoughlin markmc@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 23:29 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
I'm installing Fedora 12 (full install, no upgrade) on my laptop where I have some virtual machines configured via F11's virt-manager.
After installation I'd like to recover from a backup the existing virtual machines; is there any documentation on the proper/recommended/safer method for doing the job?
Not sure if we have any nice documentation on this, but it should simply be a matter of backing up and restoring the guest's XML configuration and disk images.
Thanks, I will try ad let you know if I run into any problems.
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