Bug 1683391

Summary:	[RFE] [machines] Allow to clone VMs
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Javier Coscia <jcoscia>
Component:	cockpit-appstream	Assignee:	Katerina Koukiou <kkoukiou>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	YunmingYang <yunyang>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	8.0	CC:	kkoukiou, qiyuan, xchen
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	8.4	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
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Last Closed:	2021-05-18 15:53:08 UTC	Type:	Feature Request
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Description Javier Coscia 2019-02-26 18:57:53 UTC

Description of problem:

Need to expose the ability to clone VMs through cockpit-machines

Features already present in virt-manager and virsh

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


kernel-4.18.0-67.el8.x86_64
cockpit-machines-184.1-1.el8.noarch


How reproducible:

100% 

Actual results:

There is no option to clone a VM through cockpit UI.

Expected results:

Allow users to clone VMs.

Comment 1 Javier Coscia 2019-02-26 19:04:25 UTC

Not available with virsh, sorry, it's through virt-install with virt-clone

Comment 4 Katerina Koukiou 2020-11-24 14:52:18 UTC

PR sent upstream: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/14954

Comment 8 Xianghua Chen 2021-01-05 08:03:49 UTC

Verified with package:
cockpit-machines-234-1.el8.noarch
libvirt-dbus-1.3.0-2.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.x86_64

Steps:
1. Prepare an off vm
2. Click Clone, use default name, click Clone, wait until the progress is done
There is a progress bar under on the dialog, wait it's finished and progress bar is 100%
3. Run the cloned vm 	
It can be run successfully and the configure are identical
4. Shut down the cloned vm, check the xml of the origianl vm and the cloned vm
# virsh dumpxml vm-original > 1.xml
# virsh dumpxml vm-clone >2.xml
# diff 1.xml 2.xml
Only following configuration changes:
name
uuid
source
mac address
5. Clone another vm which has the same name with other vm	
There should be an error that Invalid name for new guest
6. Run the original vm, there will no clone button for a running vm

So verified.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 15:53:08 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (cockpit-appstream bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:1875