Oh wait, nm - I see - looks like you WILL be keeping that out of /home - so
that's good. Sorry for the unnecessary!



On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun <wduf...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Where do you keep the actual VM image? You'll want to back that up as
> well. You can examine the xml to find that path.
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Paul Boniol <paul.bon...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I know probably very simple, but somehow I'm not finding any instructions
>> online.
>>
>> In my case the VM only runs when I happen to need to run the VM (i.e.
>> when I have to do Windows programs) so there is no issue with doing this on
>> a running VM.
>>
>> I want to install an updated host OS (I think it would be best to install
>> rather than upgrade yet again), and keep the KVM virtual host.  (Planning
>> to keep /home but probably wiping everything else.)
>>
>> I see the files in /home/kvm/images/win7/
>>
>> I did a
>> virsh dumpxml win7 > win7.xml
>> to get the current xml for how it is set up.
>>
>> Is there anything else I need to do/save?  How do I "get it back" after
>> installing the new Linux host OS?
>>
>> I know instructions must be out there, but I've looked for hours but I
>> haven't found anything specifically addressing this.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Paul
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