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| author | Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com> | 2020-02-03 07:23:05 -0500 |
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| committer | Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com> | 2020-02-03 09:03:02 -0500 |
| commit | 150b6ac95e617fffa1fbb91e2ff19c1fa45a1062 (patch) | |
| tree | f6fff768141913ba6e1d9783dac7ca686f896d0d /man | |
| parent | 9385e8689b2a9b1d941745570246cc61a4f091e7 (diff) | |
| download | virt-manager-150b6ac95e617fffa1fbb91e2ff19c1fa45a1062.tar.gz | |
virt-install: Add --reinstall=DOMAIN option
This allows using virt-install's install logic on an existing VM
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/virt-install.pod | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/virt-install.pod b/man/virt-install.pod index 24a55845..12840253 100644 --- a/man/virt-install.pod +++ b/man/virt-install.pod @@ -594,6 +594,20 @@ options. The deprecated B<--live> option is the same as =back +=item B<--reinstall DOMAIN> + +Reinstall an existing VM. DOMAIN can be a VM name, UUID, or ID number. +virt-install will fetch the domain XML from libvirt, apply the specified +install config changes, boot the VM for the install process, and then +revert to roughly the same starting XML. + +Only install related options are processed, all other VM configuration +options like --name, --disk, etc. are completely ignored. + +If --reinstall is used with --cdrom, an existing CDROM attached to +the VM will be used if one is available, otherwise a permanent CDROM +device will be added. + =item B<--unattended> [OPTIONS] |