I had created a virtual machine using the Virtual Machine Manager GUI. It was a CentOS system, minimally configure that I simply wanted to clone as I needed a couple of machines to test Openfire. Unfortunately, all my vast knowledge (Google) ;-) seemed to let me down.
The command that should have cloned the system
sudo virt-clone -o CentOSServer -n CentOSServer2 -f /home/user/CentOS2.img --connect=qemu:///systemfailed with an error:
ERROR Domain CentOSServer is not foundYet, the virtual machine that I was attempting to clone existed. I connected to it with the Virtual Machine Manager and was able to start it and access it without any issues.
I tried various alternatives including specifying --connect=qemu:///session but nothing seemed to work.
I tried virsh to connect in an attempt to use the "list -all" command. I was thinking that the gui could find the virtual machine so it had to be somewhere:
sudo virsh --connect=qemu:///session list --all
Unfortunately, that did not list any virtual machines.
The answer was fairly simple once I noticed that the GUI had specified "localhost (User)" in the name of the host to which I had connected and that the virtual machines were part of. I realized that by running the commands using sudo, I was connecting with root's profile while I was running the Virtual Machine Manager as my own user profile.
Once I realized that I should connect as my own user the "virsh list --all" command showed the virtual machine that I wanted to clone. Then, the following command cloned the system:
sudo virt-clone -o CentOSServer -n CentOSServer2 -f /home/user/CentOS2.img --connect=qemu:///session
I need to do a little research to understand the difference between the session and the system but it worked. Now back to Openfire
