How to clone a VM

[decibel83]

Hi.
Is there a way to make a clone of an existing Virtual Machine to avoid to install the new virtual machines from scratch everytimes?

Thank you very much!
Bye.

 

[tom]

Hi.
Is there a way to make a clone of an existing Virtual Machine to avoid to install the new virtual machines from scratch everytimes?

Thank you very much!
Bye.

you can workaroung this by creating a backup with vzdump and restore this backup to a different VMID and adapt the settings of the restored VM.

see:

man vzdump