[ovirt-users] Best way to clone host

Brad Bendy brad.bendy at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 20:25:41 UTC 2014


That worked, didnt see that vdsm.id file in there.

At that point I just added the host in the manager like I normally
would and boom it's up!

Can I add this to the documentation somewhere so this is for public use?

Thanks again for all the help!

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Joop <jvdwege at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 8-7-2014 21:57, Brad Bendy wrote:
>> Trashing the udev rules did fix that, not sure why I didn't of that, thanks!
>>
>> Now when I go to add the host I get a UUID error since the old UUID exist.
>>
>> Is there a command I can run to wipe out the old and make a new one? I
>> ran dmidecode -s system-uuid and the UUIDs are different on the source
>> host I cloned from and the new host, the UUID in the file does match
>> the either host and im guessing that's where the dupe ID is, but I
>> don't want to insert just a random one.
>>
>>
> run: uuidgen >/etc/vdsm/vdsm.id
> This will generate a new id which should be different from the previous
> one. You could alse extract the system-uuid if its different between
> systems. No guarantee though that all bios vendors make there systems
> unique.
>
> Joop
>
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