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From: "Zhang Haoyu" <zhanghy@sangfor.com.cn>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] How to clone a running vm?
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Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

Hi,

I want to clone a running vm without shutoff,
can below method work?
1) create a snapshot for the vm
2) create a new qcow2 image from the snapshot, but how?
3) use the new qcow2 image as backing image to clone vms

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Zhang Haoyu