On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:48:20PM -0800, fc xen list wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a problem - I created a lovely bunch of F8 x86_64 domUs and I > want to create a vast clone army of them using different dom0s. The problem > is, I do: > > fm # virt-install c1 (no graphics) > fm # xm start c1 > fm # xm shutdown c1 [ ok I don't _always_ shut it down :P ] Welcome to the world of massive data corruption if you copy the disk without shutting down. > fm # scp -p c1.img othermachine:/var/lib/xen/images > then: > om1 # virsh define c1.xml You can't just use the same XML for each - you need to change the UUID, the namem, and disk image in the XML at very least. > om1 # xm start c1 > > and hangville, > if I do: > om1 # xmstart c1 -c > it seems to hang just after the grub boot menu. Define hang ? If the guest is configured with graphical framebuffer it is perfectly expected that you'll not see anything on the text console while booting. > I assume I am "doing it wrong" but this worked great in the past. You might want to try the 'virt-clone' tool which will automate much of the stuff. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
