template cloning: <https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/wiki/template-cloning-and-custom... |1|||clone a template| from|||template| The user may clone a template from an existing template with different name. Later he can customize some parts of the template to save the effort to create a full new template. For example, he can update the network of the template cloned to have a new different template. 2.||we should also also user||||clone a template| from vm| |I just concern the image volume. For vm may has no CDROM attribute. Then does the template need to copy the image volume. |For VM clone, can we make the the vm image as a backing file(or we can call it base image). Then we can create two new images for this vm and new vm. All these two new images are a read/write snapshot of the original image, -- any changes to new images will not be reflected in original image. http://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html#StorageVolBacking http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/CreateSnapshot | -- Thanks and best regards! Sheldon Feng(???)&lt;shaohef(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; IBM Linux Technology Center