libvirt users - Jan 2015 - redistribute virtual machines from vps hosting to end users

Hi. I need to get ability to download backups of kvm virtual machines
(raw images) to end users. Virtualbox users can import ovs images,
that i can create, but in case of linux and virt-manager - how users
can import images and simply run it?
I think about newbie linux users, that can install virt-manager under
ubuntu via graphical package manager and do some easy steps...

Can you share me info how can i do needed things ?=)Or may be some
admins/users already solve this kind of "problems"...

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Vasiliy Tolstov,
e-mail: v.tolstov@selfip.ru
jabber: vase@selfip.ru

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 02:32:12AM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov
wrote:
> Hi. I need to get ability to download backups of kvm virtual machines
> (raw images) to end users. Virtualbox users can import ovs images,
> that i can create, but in case of linux and virt-manager - how users
> can import images and simply run it?
> I think about newbie linux users, that can install virt-manager under
> ubuntu via graphical package manager and do some easy steps...
> 
> Can you share me info how can i do needed things ?=)Or may be some
> admins/users already solve this kind of "problems"...
I don't have immediate steps with `virt-manager` as I don't use it much
in my workflow. But if you have users who're comfortable with CLI, you
can import disk images into libvirt (and which will also be accessible
via `virt-manager`) tribvially:

  $ virt-install --name f21vm --ram 2048 \
      --diskpath=/export/f21vm.qcow2,format=qcow2,cache=writeback \
      --nographics --os-variant fedora21 --import

(The above has the option '--nographics' because, it's just a small,
server image, but still - when the image is imported into libvirt, it
should be accessible via virt-manager, albiet a headless server.)

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/kashyap

2015-01-28 12:47 GMT+03:00 Kashyap Chamarthy
<kchamart@redhat.com>:
> I don't have immediate steps with `virt-manager` as I don't use it
much
> in my workflow. But if you have users who're comfortable with CLI, you
> can import disk images into libvirt (and which will also be accessible
> via `virt-manager`) tribvially:
>
>   $ virt-install --name f21vm --ram 2048 \
>       --diskpath=/export/f21vm.qcow2,format=qcow2,cache=writeback \
>       --nographics --os-variant fedora21 --import
>
> (The above has the option '--nographics' because, it's just a
small,
> server image, but still - when the image is imported into libvirt, it
> should be accessible via virt-manager, albiet a headless server.)

I can provide single line command for end users...
In case of virt-install can i provide xml for domain while import ?
For example i can generate xml with minimal memory/devices needs to be
present..

-- 
Vasiliy Tolstov,
e-mail: v.tolstov@selfip.ru
jabber: vase@selfip.ru

On 01/27/2015 03:32 PM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> Hi. I need to get ability to download backups of kvm virtual machines
> (raw images) to end users. Virtualbox users can import ovs images,
> that i can create, but in case of linux and virt-manager - how users
> can import images and simply run it?
Look at virt-builder, part of libguestfs:

http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

2015-01-28 19:48 GMT+03:00 Eric Blake
<eblake@redhat.com>:
> Look at virt-builder, part of libguestfs:
>
> http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html

Thanks

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Vasiliy Tolstov,
e-mail: v.tolstov@selfip.ru
jabber: vase@selfip.ru