10.9. Creating a Virtual Machine from a Snapshot
Summary
You have created a snapshot from a virtual machine. Now you can use that snapshot to create another virtual machine.
Procedure 10.6. Creating a virtual machine from a snapshot
- Use the Virtual Machines resource tab, tree mode, or the search function to find and select the virtual machine in the results list.
- Click the Snapshots tab in the details pane to list the available snapshots for the virtual machines.
- Select a snapshot in the list displayed and click to open the Clone VM from Snapshot window.
- Enter the Name and Description of the virtual machine to be created.
- Click to create the virtual machine and close the window.
Result
After a short time, the cloned virtual machine appears in the Virtual Machines tab in the navigation pane. It appears in the navigation pane with a status of Image Locked. The virtual machine will remain in this state until Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization completes the creation of the virtual machine. A virtual machine with a preallocated 20GB hard drive takes about fifteen minutes to create. Sparsely-allocated virtual disks take less time to create than do preallocated virtual disks.
When the virtual machine is ready to use, its status changes from
Image Locked to Down in the Virtual Machines tab in the navigation pane.