Porting existing virtual machines to newer Fedora

[Gianluca Sforna]

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.

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[Tom Horsley]

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).

[Mark McLoughlin]

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.

[Gianluca Sforna]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com&gt; 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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