[PVE-User] How to duplicate a container?

[Simone Piccardi]

On 11/21/2012 05:10 PM, Flavio Stanchina wrote:
>
> Think outside the box. Completely remove the network card(s) from the
> clone, boot it, log in from the Proxmox console and change (or remove)
> the network configuration. Then shut it down, add network interfaces and
> reboot.
>
Yes, that can be done, but it does'nt seems so "outside the box". I have 
to start the box (the VM) and do modification from the inside, and then 
also restart it.

I found a lot faster to work directly on the mounted VM filesystem and 
start it when modification are completed.

>> But that's not so plain, you have to use kpartx to enable devices names
>> for the single partitions inside the image to be able to mount them.
>
> Or just boot it with the ISO of a live CD.
>
This seems far more time consuming and complex than the previous one.

Simone
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