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The operation clones the source volume within the same storage pool, It allocates space for the target volume and copies the content across. Various optimizations are applied depending on the source volume format. | |||
virsh vol-clone --pool <storage-pool-name> <source-volume-name> <new-volume-name> | virsh vol-clone --pool <storage-pool-name> <source-volume-name> <new-volume-name> | ||
Revision as of 21:49, 30 June 2017
External
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Virtualization_Deployment_and_Administration_Guide/sect-Storage_Volumes-Cloning_volumes.html
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Virtualization_Deployment_and_Administration_Guide/sect-Managing_guest_virtual_machines_with_virsh-Storage_Volume_Commands.html#sect-Creating_storage_volumes-Cloning_a_storage_volume
Internal
Overview
The operation clones the source volume within the same storage pool, It allocates space for the target volume and copies the content across. Various optimizations are applied depending on the source volume format.
virsh vol-clone --pool <storage-pool-name> <source-volume-name> <new-volume-name>
Example
virsh vol-clone --pool main-storage-pool test-volume test-volume.raw virsh vol-list --pool main-storage-pool