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13.2. Cloning Volumes

The new volume will be allocated from storage in the same storage pool as the volume being cloned. The virsh vol-clone must have the --pool argument which dictates the name of the storage pool that contains the volume to be cloned. The rest of the command names the volume to be cloned (volume3) and the name of the new volume that was cloned (clone1). The virsh vol-list command lists the volumes that are present in the storage pool (guest_images_disk).
# virsh vol-clone --pool guest_images_disk volume3 clone1
Vol clone1 cloned from volume3

# virsh vol-list guest_images_disk
Name                 Path
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volume1              /dev/sdb1
volume2              /dev/sdb2
volume3              /dev/sdb3
clone1               /dev/sdb4


# parted -s /dev/sdb print
Model: ATA ST3500418AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
1      4211MB  12.8GB  8595MB  primary
2      12.8GB  21.4GB  8595MB  primary
3      21.4GB  30.0GB  8595MB  primary
4      30.0GB  38.6GB  8595MB  primary