On 10/17/2009 06:52 PM, Kenni Lund wrote: > 2009/10/17 Lynn Wilborn <lynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> I have a windows 2003 server guest that's been registered >> with MS, and it probably won't let me do that many more >> times. So I want to save the guest, erase fedora, and >> install centos 5.4 when it comes out. > > I don't know if this always is the case, but I've done several > reinstallations of Windows 2003 > and if it won't accept your legal serial, you'll get the option to > phone your local MS department > and they'll reactivate it so you'll be able to install it on "new hardware". > >> Im told I can just copy the .img file of the guest to a >> network share to back it up, but is there anything I would >> need to do to have the virt-manager gui on the new OS see it >> and list it when I copy it back? Does it need to be imported >> in some way? > You should just be able to do: Original host: virsh dumpxml <vmname> > vmname.xml New host : virsh define vmname.xml Assuming any files referenced in the XML are in the same location on the new host. For a more generic way to import an existing image, you can use virt-install --import ... Which allows building a new XML config with all of virt-install's flags. > I don't know if there's a fancier way, but I did it some time ago > myself; just backup the image > and the corresponding libvirt XML configuration file from > /etc/libvirt/qemu/ (or something like > that, I don't have access to a Fedora machine at the moment) and copy > it back on the new > machine. Now restart the libvirtd daemon, to make it load the > XML-files and start up virt-manager. > > FYI: This is a bit off topic as it is not really related to KVM, a > better place to ask virt-manager > questions would be at the fedora-virt mailing list; > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt > Just to clarify, for virt-manager/virt-install issues in general (not specifically fedora related), virt-tools-list is also available: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list Thanks, Cole -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
