migrate libvirt config between machines

Daniel P. Berrangé
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:11:00 -0000

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 09:28:36AM +0100, Michal Pr?vozn?k
wrote:
> On 11/29/21 17:37, daggs wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'd like to migrate my current libvirt config from one machine to
another, what is the best way to do so?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
> Do you mean domain/network/... XMLs or {libvirtd,qemu,...}.config files?
>
> For the former I suggest 'virsh dumpxml $dom > dom.xml' and
copying over
> the file onto new machine and defining the domain again 'virsh define
> dom.xml' (s/dumpxml/net-dumpxml/ and s/define/net-define/ for networks
> and so on).
>
> If you run new enough libvirt there's even 'virsh migrate
--offline'
> that encapsulates steps from above.

NB, i'm not sure this is clever enough to copy across the TPM state or
the EDK variables state, if you're using such feature.


Regards,
Daniel
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