Re: [Xen-users] Cloning VM's

[Toens Bueker <toens.bueker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Koski <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I was wondering if there are other "quick and dirty" ways to replicate
>> the environments.  I don't think the quick dd will work 100% since
>> although I can change the ip and hostname information on the definition
>> file and the vm itself, I'm not able to change the underlying MAC.
> 
> I use a script that creates LVM partitions for the root and swap
> partitions, then untars a debootstrap created image to it. Of
> course it makes the filesystems and mounts them first. It also
> creates a default config file. From executing the command to
> logging in takes about a minute. I could modify the script to
> change the hostname and other settings but I don't create enough
> VMs to make it worthwhile.

We use xfsdump/xfsrestore.

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Töns
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