virt-convert & virt-image: These tools depend on the virt-image format, a noble attempt to make a non-proprietary version of OVF. I think there is still a need to make an open version of the horrible proprietary fake-standard of OVF, but virt-image isn't it. Having these tools does create confusion for users (particularly versus when they should run 'qemu-img convert' or virt-v2v) so I think we should drop them. virt-clone: This tool is supposed to clone existing images. But you can just run dd/cp to clone the disks + 'virt-install --import' to create libvirt configuration. To do full cloning you will really need something a lot more advanced that can see inside the disks, ie. virt-sysprep, or that can sparsify disks (virt-sysprep), or that can do templating (virt-builder et al). virt-clone is troublesome for me. Most people I meet who try to use it should be using virt-sysprep. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list