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134126.IX Title " VIRT-CLONE 1"
135- .TH VIRT-CLONE 1 "2009-12-01 " "" "Virtual Machine Install Tools"
127+ .TH VIRT-CLONE 1 "2010-03-03 " "" "Virtual Machine Install Tools"
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@@ -166,7 +158,7 @@ Show the help message and exit
166158.IP " \-\- connect=CONNECT" 4
167159.IX Item " --connect=CONNECT"
168160Connect to a non-default hypervisor. See \fI virt \- install \fR \| (1) for details
169- .Sh " General Options"
161+ .SS "General Options"
170162.IX Subsection " General Options"
171163General configuration parameters that apply to all guest clones.
172164.IP " \- o \s- 1 ORIGINAL_GUEST\s 0 , \-\- original=ORIGINAL_GUEST" 2
@@ -205,7 +197,7 @@ currently active.
205197specify \s- 1 UUID\s 0 , you should use a 32\- digit hexadecimal number. \s- 1 UUID\s 0 are intended
206198to be unique across the entire data center, and indeed world. Bear this in
207199mind if manually specifying a \s- 1 UUID\s 0
208- .Sh " Storage Configuration"
200+ .SS "Storage Configuration"
209201.IX Subsection " Storage Configuration"
210202.IP " \- f \s- 1 DISKFILE\s 0 , \-\- file=DISKFILE" 2
211203.IX Item " -f DISKFILE, --file=DISKFILE"
@@ -224,16 +216,18 @@ Fully allocate the new storage if the path being cloned is a sparse file.
224216See \fI virt \- install \fR \| (1) for more details on sparse vs. nonsparse.
225217.IP " \-\- preserve\- data" 2
226218.IX Item " --preserve-data"
227- Preserve a new file to use as the disk image for the new guest.
228- .Sh " Networking Configuration"
219+ No storage is cloned: disk images specific by \-\- file are preserved as is,
220+ and referenced in the new clone \s- 1 XML\s 0 . This is useful if you want to clone
221+ a \s- 1 VM\s 0 \s- 1 XML\s 0 template, but not the storage contents.
222+ .SS "Networking Configuration"
229223.IX Subsection " Networking Configuration"
230224.IP " \- m \s- 1 MAC\s 0 , \-\- mac=MAC" 2
231225.IX Item " -m MAC, --mac=MAC"
232226Fixed \s- 1 MAC\s 0 address for the guest; If this parameter is omitted, or the value
233227\& \f(CW \*( C` RANDOM \*( C' \fR is specified a suitable address will be randomly generated. Addresses
234228are applied sequentially to the networks as they are listed in the original
235229guest \s- 1 XML\s 0 .
236- .Sh " Miscellaneous Options"
230+ .SS "Miscellaneous Options"
237231.IX Subsection " Miscellaneous Options"
238232.IP " \- d, \-\- debug" 2
239233.IX Item " -d, --debug"
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