[Users] Copy VM to external disk and import back

[Alan Murrell]

Hello,

I did some updates to my test installation from an unofficial repo (I
had installed a compile version of qemu-kvm-rhev from a private repo).
After rebooting, I was encountering errors with adding networks (when I
tried to save, it would say that my already-exisiting networks were
being added twice)

Anyway, not sure what exactly broke, as there were some other oVirt
updates as well.  I was planning on just wiping my all-in-one install
and starting from scratch, but I first wanted to see if it was possible
to copy my Win7 VM to an external USB drive, then import it back in
after I have a fresh all-in-one install?

I already have an export domain and have tested exporting one of my
other VMs, but am not sure if I would then be able to:

  1.) Copy the resulting directory to external storage
  2.) Do my fresh install
  3.) Copy the directory from external storage to my new export domain
  4,) Import the VM from the export domain

I guess my question is, is the export domain like the ISO domain: can I
copy files directly to it (with the appropriate metadata, of course) and
after a few minutes, have oVirt able to automatically see the contents
and be able to import it back in.

Thanks! :-)

-Alan