On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 5:29 AM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2020-12-24 at 16:26 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Two other ideas: > > > > You could create an "original" copy of the VM that you never touch, > > and then clone it to restore. What I don't know is whether clone > > implies duplicating all the storage too. If so then you might want the > > original to have no file set for the virtual drive. > > > > I've gotten somewhat adept at fiddling with the xml using 'virsh edit > > $vm' but there's a somewhat recent feature you can enable in > > virt-manager to directly edit xml in virt-manager. For every device on > > the left side UI, there's GUI configuration on the right side, but at > > the top there's a tab to see the xml. You have to go dig in > > virt-manager preferences to enable xml editing, otherwise you just get > > to look at the xml, not change it. I've started doing this rather than > > editing the xml directly via virsh edit. > > Yes, I've used that. My current difficulty (annoyance really) is that > having edited the xml file in a local directory, I can run it using > 'virsh create ...' and it duly appears in the virt-manager panel. > However if I close virt-manager or end my login session it doesn't show > up on restarting and I have to do the 'virsh create' again. I can't > figure out how to actually install the new VM where virt-manager will > find it (having deleted the original one). I've had a look at virt- > clone but haven't managed to find right incantation yet. I'm not sure I know of an elegant way to do it but you could create a new VM in virt-manager, then use 'virsh edit VM' to edit it, and copy paste your backup xml into that edit window and save it. Viola. I know it'll work cuz I've done it, but yeah something more elegant might be nice. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
