hi all,

just want to know how you all clone your VMs on linux KVM as i have done it this way and it works

all my vm file(s) are stored on my KVM server here -

/home/KVM/script.qcow2

i have only one vm atm but you get the jist, there all in /home/KVM

i have noticed in virt-manager if you right click on your vm and select clone it says it must be paused or switched off ie you cant do hot backups, just cold

i have created a samba share on my KVM server so i can access it from other machines, so i can save the files somewhere else for safe keeping, location /home/files/

cp -f /home/KVM/script.qcow2 /home/files/
[root@kvm ~]# rm -f /home/KVM/script.qcow2
[root@kvm ~]# cp -f /home/files/script.qcow2 /home/KVM/

once i have done this, i made a new vm from my clone, added the same network to it and i can succesfully log in and access the apache server on it

just wondered how you guys do it

rob

just make a copy of the *.qcow file
that is the virtual drive

Are you copying the virtual disk while it is running?