Correct way to move kvm vm

I have a problem to do live migration between two host computers via virt manager. It is a permission issue but I don’t have time to fig it out. It is not a big deal. It is ok to move KVM vms offline.

1. stop VM from gui or cli or guest console
2. dump guest configuration as xml

virsh dumpxml VMNAME > domxml.xml

1. copy the guest images to another server with same path
2. define a VM from the dump xml file

virsh define domxml.xml

1. Check the configuration and start VM on new host. Usually need to check the network configuration, CPU, and memory.

source: http://serverfault.com/questions/434064/correct-way-to-move-kvm-vm

Written on March 13, 2017