When cloning a virtual machine like so virt-clone -o Guest1 -n Guest2 -f /var/lib/libvirt/images/Guest2.img Everything works. Minor 'issue' (if you can call it that) is that the network interface in the new machine shows up as eth1 instead of eth0. This is because /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules contains lines telling the system to call the interface with the old mac address eth0. This 'new' interface thus gets the next available name. If possible I think on machine clone with a new mac address either the file should be updated with the new mac address (probably would make people the happiest in case they edited it by hand), or the file should be wiped clean so it can be built again from scratch. I also sorta feel like /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX should have HWADDR line mapping done as well.
Obvious application for libguestfs. Also CC-ing Matt Booth, because there is some overlap with the sort of modifications that virt-v2v does.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Discussion on list here: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/2010-January/001784.html
*** Bug 544729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Nice discussion... what's the status on this?
Nothing yet. There is some more info here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/345234 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431190 Debian carries a patch to fix this issue in udev for VMWare guests, though nothing upstream. The same type of fix could be applied for KVM guests. I'll bring it up on the udev list.
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This can be done using the new virt-sysprep tool: http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html
(In reply to comment #8) > This can be done using the new virt-sysprep tool: > > http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html Closing as WONTFIX.