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Bug 1683391 - [RFE] [machines] Allow to clone VMs
Summary: [RFE] [machines] Allow to clone VMs
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: cockpit-appstream
Version: 8.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.4
Assignee: Katerina Koukiou
QA Contact: YunmingYang
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-02-26 18:57 UTC by Javier Coscia
Modified: 2023-02-12 11:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 234
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Last Closed: 2021-05-18 15:53:08 UTC
Type: Feature Request
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-94883 0 None None None 2023-02-12 11:55:17 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 3943191 0 Supportability None How to clone a VM through cockpit ? 2019-02-26 19:07:24 UTC

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
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