Libvirt Storage Volume Renaming: Difference between revisions

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1. Shutdown all the virtual machines that use the volume.
1. Shutdown all the virtual machines that use the volume.


2. Delete the storage volume from the pool with [[virsh vol-delete]]. Note that [[virsh vol-delete]] does not delete the ''content'' of the underlying storage, it just removes the storage volume definition from the pool.
2. Clone the volume, under a different name.
 
3. Delete the original storage volume from the pool with [[virsh vol-delete]]. Note that [[virsh vol-delete]] will also delete the ''content'' of the underlying storage, not just removes the storage volume definition from the pool. <font color=red>TODO: verify this one more time and Wan in virsh vol-delete</font>.


  virsh vol-delete test-volume.img main-storage-pool
  virsh vol-delete test-volume.img main-storage-pool

Revision as of 15:16, 30 June 2017

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Overview

There is no virsh command to rename a volume, but it can be achieved via the following sequence of steps:

1. Shutdown all the virtual machines that use the volume.

2. Clone the volume, under a different name.

3. Delete the original storage volume from the pool with virsh vol-delete. Note that virsh vol-delete will also delete the content of the underlying storage, not just removes the storage volume definition from the pool. TODO: verify this one more time and Wan in virsh vol-delete.

virsh vol-delete test-volume.img main-storage-pool