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!