I have used clonezilla to save image on a bare metal device to external disk. And used the cloned iso image to install on other UCS machines.

But I want the same to be done for KVM setups, which are instantiated from bare metal device. In short, I would like to take cloned image from KVM and install on other KVM. Please help, how can I do it.
Appreciate your help!!

Your thinking needs to be changed. You imagine right now that a KVM machine is somehow different than a real machine. I say imagine that it is a real machine. You boot (this kvm machine) to a clonezilla iso (or disc) and clone it off to some resource. You can attach a new drive to the vm or use networked location.



However, from your question I'd have to suggest a different method. Just copy the machine and associated files. http://serverfault.com/questions/434...to-move-kvm-vm

It may be possible to migrate it also.
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Migration

Yep. I recently cloned a kvm centos 6.5 to a physical disk using a dd created .iso. Worked fine after some hostname/udev/ifcfg edits.

You may want convert the image file to raw format before cloning.

Thank you Jefro for your response. I understood Your point.
-I had a new image on my kvm vm with 3.10.11 kernel
-All graphical interfaces were disabled.
So my doubt is, how can I use clonezilla during reboot? The only way I can access VM is through VNC console, where I am not getting any booting options.

-->However, from your question I'd have to suggest a different method. Just copy the machine and associated files.

Let me explain my requirement properly. Would like to clone a kvm VM and use the same iso for other number of vm's.

Please provide some pointers or procedure,how can I proceed further.

A hint to the solution.

A vm is three things for the most part.

One is the vm application/software. (kvm/qemu in this case)

Two is a configuration file or set of files that describe the vm client to the vm software.

Three is the virtual hard drive files.

You don't need to use the phrase clone in this case. You just need to copy the files associated with the client.

See web posts on how to copy kvm. Generally steps are shut down vm. Copy files. May need to use words like import kvm to simplify install.

Thank you Jefro, Thank you Doug.
But I have an issue during restoring clonezilla image.
I am getting error like -failed to install grub.
Please find the attached image.

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I see it but not sure why. It is saying that it is trying to install grub 0.97 to an ext4 partition.

Did you create the formatted virtual hard drive to begin with?

Why didn't you just copy the files?

What version of clonezilla are you using?
It may be that the version is too old & was created when grub1 was the default.