#!/usr/bin/bash # create 1st level-Clones set -eu # if less than two arguments supplied, display usage if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then echo "This script takes as input the name of the VM to clone" echo "Usage: $0 vm_name_orig vm_name_clone" exit 1 fi VM_NAME=$1 VM_CLONE=$2 # change to image-directory cd /var/lib/libvirt/images if [[ ! -f "xml/${VM_NAME}.xml" ]] || [[ ! -f "${VM_NAME}.gcow2" ]]; then echo "xml or qcow2 File does not exists." exit 1 fi qemu-img create -f qcow2 -F qcow2 -b "${VM_NAME}.qcow2" "${VM_NAME}-${VM_CLONE}.qcow2" chmod a-w "${VM_NAME}-${VM_CLONE}.qcow2" # virsh --connect=qemu:///system dumpxml "${VM_NAME}" > "xml/${VM_NAME}-${VM_CLONE}.xml" cp "xml/${VM_NAME}.xml" "xml/${VM_NAME}-${VM_CLONE}.xml" # hardware addresses need to be removed, libvirt will assign # new addresses automatically sed -i /uuid/d "xml/${VM_NAME}-${VM_CLONE}.xml" sed -i '/mac address/d' "xml/${VM_NAME}-${VM_CLONE}.xml" # and actually rename the vm: (this also updates the storage path) sed -i "s/${VM_NAME}/${VM_NAME}-${VM_CLONE}/" "xml/${VM_NAME}-${VM_CLONE}.xml"