Cloning a KVM Virtual Machine¶

VSI recommends cloning your KVM virtual machine using CLI to avoid data loss and ensure proper cloning.

Turn off your virtual machine using the virsh destroy vm-name command.
Run the following:
```
virt-clone -o original-vm-name -n new-vm-name --auto-clone --nonsparse
```
This command will clone the VM along with the associated disks and ensure that they are thick-provisioned.

Note

Thick provisioning of OpenVMS disks corresponds to full preallocation of disk space in KVM virtual machines configuration.