Bug 913382

Summary:	Virt-clone is unable to replace existing guest
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Geyang Kong <gkong>
Component:	virtinst	Assignee:	Martin Kletzander <mkletzan>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	berrange, dallan, dyasny, hyao, lcui, mjenner, mkletzan, mzhan, rwu, tzheng
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2013-03-07 10:01:54 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Geyang Kong 2013-02-21 06:18:54 UTC

Description of problem:
  Virt-clone on RHEL7 cannot replace existed guest.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-virtinst-0.600.3-2.el7.noarch

Reproduce steps:
1. Have an installed guest.
2. Run: virt-clone -o T1 --name=T1 --file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/T1-new.img --replace

Actual results:
1. Got: ERROR    Guest name 'T1' is already in use.

Expected results:
1. Could clone T1 successfully.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Martin Kletzander 2013-03-06 10:04:25 UTC

Patch upstream, but we still have to wait for the merge.

commit 03804ee7fabaf730d68845a46668e29cee21fd84
Author: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan>
Date:   Thu Feb 21 16:38:44 2013 +0100

    virt-clone: Properly propagate --replace parameter

Comment 3 Martin Kletzander 2013-03-07 10:01:54 UTC

Don't mind the "merge" part of previous comment, moving upstream and closing it as NEXTRELEASE.