Hi I was under the impression that virt-clone would create new UUId,s etc where as virt-resize doesn't ? All I am trying to do is use a VM (in LVM) as a template to use to clone . The templates are only about 3GB - so to deploy the template I need to resize them. This is why i did this TEMPLATE -> [virt-clone] -> new_vm.tmp (to create new UUIDs , etc) new_vm.tmp -> [virt-clone] -> new_vm (a clone of the vm with new uuids - this creates .xml for qemu, etc, correct name . etc) new_vm.tmp -> [virt-resize] -> new_vm - new vm has correct partition size. If there is a more sensible way of doing this I would like to know ! Anyway is there a way of forcing being able to copy to an existing LVM partition ?? As mentioned I could do it fine in Ubuntu 10.04 not 12.04 - i.e do I need to recompile libvirt, etc ? Any help will be welcomed _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users