#!/usr/bin/bash # create VM clone set -eu # if less or more than one arguments supplied, display usage if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then echo "This script takes as input the name of the VM to clone" echo "Usage: $0 vm_name" exit 1 fi # change to image-directory cd /var/lib/libvirt/images VM_NAME=$1 if [[ ! -f "xml/${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" "${VM_NAME}-clone.qcow2" cp "xml/${VM_NAME}.xml" "xml/${VM_NAME}-clone.xml" # and actually rename the vm: (this also updates the storage path) sed -i "s/${VM_NAME}/${VM_NAME}-clone/" "xml/${VM_NAME}-clone.xml" # set Username for mounting data from correct user sed -i "s/USER/${SUDO_USER}/" "xml/${VM_NAME}-clone.xml" # delete the old vm virsh --connect=qemu:///system undefine "${VM_NAME}-clone" || echo "${VM_NAME}-clone did not exist" # finally, create the new vm virsh --connect=qemu:///system define "xml/${VM_NAME}-clone.xml"