I (will) have a VM in libvirt (using QEMU/KVM) that I will set up and consider the "gold master". I would then like to be able to clone it 'n' times to create multiple systems. What is the best way to do this, and how best to "individualize" the cloned systems after they are instantiated? The hypervisor platform is:
OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2
Hypervisor pkg: qemu-kvm 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.8
Libvirt: 1.0.4 (compiled from source)
I am managing the VMs from another system (Fedora 18 OS) using virt-manager 0.9.5
I know I can shut down the VM and then use virt-manager's "Clone..." function, but am wondering if there is a better way (especially if I could do multiple clones at once, not sure if that's possible or not...)