Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 07/25/14 17:33, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/25/2014 01:50 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: it took time but I've got my XFCE4 desktop configured as I want it, no fuss no muss! Wouldn't it have been easier just to copy across $HOME if that's all you needed? Possibly if that could b

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/25/2014 01:50 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: it took time but I've got my XFCE4 desktop configured as I want it, no fuss no muss! Wouldn't it have been easier just to copy across $HOME if that's all you needed? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 07/25/14 15:43, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:22:02 -0400 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Is this the image file you're talking about? Yep. The name just depends on which version of libvirt created it. Very old ones tend to be named .img, with newer versions it gives

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:22:02 -0400 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > Is this the image file you're talking about? > > Yep. The name just depends on which version of libvirt created it. Very old ones tend to be named .img, with newer versions it gives a different suffix depending on wha

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 07/25/14 11:52, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:15:32 -0400 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Now that I have a working Centos7 VM how do I save it and transfer it ti a second computer? virsh dumpxml centos7 > centos7.xml Replace centos7 with whatever your virtual mac

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread poma
On 25.07.2014 17:47, poma wrote: On 25.07.2014 17:31, poma wrote: On 25.07.2014 16:59, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 07/25/14 10:52, poma wrote: On 25.07.2014 16:35, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: If it is a kvm vm and you are using cow file as the disks back-end, you can just copy

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:15:32 -0400 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > Now that I have a working Centos7 VM how do I save it and transfer it ti > a second computer? virsh dumpxml centos7 > centos7.xml Replace centos7 with whatever your virtual machine name actually is. That gives you

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread poma
On 25.07.2014 17:31, poma wrote: On 25.07.2014 16:59, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 07/25/14 10:52, poma wrote: On 25.07.2014 16:35, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: If it is a kvm vm and you are using cow file as the disks back-end, you can just copy the files to the new machine, and

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread poma
On 25.07.2014 16:59, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 07/25/14 10:52, poma wrote: On 25.07.2014 16:35, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: If it is a kvm vm and you are using cow file as the disks back-end, you can just copy the files to the new machine, and copy the machine xml from /etc/lib

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 07/25/14 10:52, poma wrote: On 25.07.2014 16:35, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: If it is a kvm vm and you are using cow file as the disks back-end, you can just copy the files to the new machine, and copy the machine xml from /etc/libvirt/qemu/vm.xml to the new machine and use `virsh define vm

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread poma
On 25.07.2014 16:35, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: If it is a kvm vm and you are using cow file as the disks back-end, you can just copy the files to the new machine, and copy the machine xml from /etc/libvirt/qemu/vm.xml to the new machine and use `virsh define vm.xml` to recreate it OK, 'QEMU *QC

Re: How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
If it is a kvm vm and you are using cow file as the disks back-end, you can just copy the files to the new machine, and copy the machine xml from /etc/libvirt/qemu/vm.xml to the new machine and use `virsh define vm.xml` to recreate it *-- Rabin* On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Bob Goodwin - Z

How to save/export a VM? -

2014-07-25 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
Now that I have a working Centos7 VM how do I save it and transfer it ti a second computer? I can't seem to find this, perhaps I don't know the right terms? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib