Virsh vol-clone

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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