qvm-clone – Clones an existing VM by copying all its disk files

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Synopsis

qvm-clone [options] VMNAME NEWVM

Options

--help, -h

Show this help message and exit

--class=CLASS, -C CLASS

Create VM of different class than source VM. The tool will try to copy as much as possible data/metadata from source VM, but some information may be impossible to preserve (for example target VM have no matching properties).

-P POOL

Pool to use for the new domain. All volumes besides snapshots volumes are imported in to the specified POOL. THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT TO USE NORMALLY.

--pool=POOL:VOLUME, -p POOL:VOLUME

Specify the pool to use for the specific volume

--ignore-errors

Log errors encountered when creating metadata, but continue with clone operation. Useful if qvm-appmenus call fails from an AdminVM during clone.

--quiet, -q

Be quiet

--verbose, -v

Increase verbosity

Authors

Joanna Rutkowska <joanna at invisiblethingslab dot com>
Rafal Wojtczuk <rafal at invisiblethingslab dot com>
Marek Marczykowski <marmarek at invisiblethingslab dot com>
Bahtiar kalkin- Gadimov <bahtiar at gadimov dot de>
For complete author list see: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-admin-client.git