Here's something I would like to see, but do not know how to cleanly
accomplish:
virt-clone -o GUESTNAME -f NEWDISKFILE -x NEWXML
The idea here is I really want to be able to clone guests, but I don't
necessarily want to clone them on the same host. Instead, I want to be
able to track a central library of guests (and their associated disk
images) in cobbler that I can clone later -- in my case, koan will be
just doing the bare-minimum to get the virt-image parameters right to
feed to virt-image. So, in order to do this, I also need to get some
XML out of the guest that is compatible with virt-image, so I can save
it on the central server.
The problem I have now is that the XML coming out of virsh dumpxml is
not compatible with virt-image.
This "-x" output would need to be in virt-image format and it would
write this XML in addition to the diskfile.
For example, once established, I could just feed this back into
virt-image like so:
virt-image foo.xml --n NEWNAME -u NEWUUID -m NEWMAC -b NEWBRIDGE
I do not think I'm familiar with virtinst internals to add this, though
it's something we are going to eventually need for ovirt.
You can see a bit of what syntax I'm getting at (and the general idea) here:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KoanWithIsos
Though in addition koan would be tracking the xmlfile for cloning info
as well.
--Michael
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