RHEV export needed for import back as new guest to RHEV

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Hi,

 

I have a RHEV 3.0.7 installation with a guest VM that I have exported to the export domain.   I would now like to import that guest VM back to the same RHEV host, but under a different name and storage location.

 

Is there a way to do this?    I want a completely separate storage location, not a snapshot on the old storage.

 

What I am really trying to do is CLONE a virtual machine in RHEV...

 

Thanks,

Paul

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If the original virtual machine exists in the environment, then you will not be able to import the virtual machine to the same environment due to uuid conflict.

 

If you have removed the original virtual machine, then you will be able to import it to any sotrage domain available in the environment.

 

The easiest wasy to clone a virtual machine is to create a template from it and deploy a new vm from that template using "Clone" as the allocation method.

RHEV-3.1 will allow you to create a clone from a snapshot while the vm is running.

Thanks.   Creating a template instead of an export was what I needed to understand.   I was able to create a fully provisioned clone copy based on the template.

 

My confusion came from the references to snapshots.   These KVMs do heavy IO, and don't work well with thin-provisioning.   I thought, mistakenly, that templates were linked to snapshot technology.

 

There are two allocation method while deploying a vm from template. Clone and Thin Provisioned. While using clone, vm is not dependent on template. While using Think Provisioned, only then the vm is going to be dependent on template and will work like a thin provisioned disk works.

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