Re: virt-clone/Fedora 8/Xen3.1 ... ERROR: Disk size must be an int or a float.

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:47:40PM +0500, Asrai khn wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 10:35 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> > It won't care what type of storage the original VM is using - it'll
> > simply read the data off the original disk whether its a file or
> > block device or LVM vol.
> >
> > If you want to use LVM volumes in the destination VM, then you currently
> > need to manually create the LVM volume ahead of time - virt-clone itself
> > will not create new LVM volumes for you. This is in the future feature
> > list though, once libvirt storage management APIs are merged.
> >
> >
> thanks, one more question what will be the virt-clone command to clone
> existing vm which FS is based on loop back files and using more then one
> file for root. var, and swap eg here is the entry from /etc/xen/vm.cfg which
> we are using

Yes it is quite happy dealing with multiple disks, and doesn't care what
driver is being used (phy:, file:, tap:aio: - this only affects guest,
not the way you access files).  Just use the '-f' flag multiple times
if you have many disks.

Dan.
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