[ovirt-users] Best way to clone host

[Douglas Schilling Landgraf]

Hi Brad,

On 07/08/2014 04:25 PM, Brad Bendy wrote:
> 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?
>
Yes, into the wiki page:
wiki.ovirt.org

> 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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Cheers
Douglas