Written by #xxaxxelxx

KVM | moving machines and doing some maintenance

your commands:

# LIST ALL RUNNING MACHINES
virsh list
# SHUTDOWN
virsh shutdown MACHINE

# SAVE THE CONFIG
virsh dumpxml MACHINE > /data/kvm/libvirt/kvm_backup/MACHINE.xml

# SIGTERMS UNRESPONSIBLE MACHINES | SOUNDS DANGEROUS BUT DOESN'T DESTROY IT
virsh destroy

# CREATE A MACHINE OUT OF THE SAVRED CONFIG XML
virsh define /data/kvm/libvirt/kvm_backup/MACHINE.xml

# SPARSE A QCOW2 DISK
# !!! BACKUP THE ORIGINAL - HAD FAILURES SOMETIMES !!!
virt-sparsify kvm_backup/original.qcow2 kvm_images/sparsedcopy.qcow2

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