How To Rename KVM Virtual Machine
I like to Rename KVM Virtul Machine for same reasons. In Linux, we have KVM Virtualisation tools that support our most of virtualisation requirements.In this post we would see How to rename KVM Virtual Machine.
It just one command process and KVM Guest Machine need to shutdown before start this procedure.
let’s take an example, we have Guest machine name srv7-clone-manual that created during clone process. Let’s rename it to srv7-clone, that look more meaningful to me.
Syntax
virsh domrename <Existing/old Guest Name> <New Guest Machine Name>
Example
Let’s start work on terminal and see what are scenario on ground.
We have below Machines, Need to work on srv7-clone-manual #virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - office_image shut off - srv6 shut off - srv7 shut off - srv7-clone-manual shut off - srv7.1 shut off - ubuntu-17.04 shut off
Let’s rename srv7-clone-manual to srv7-clone
#virsh domrename srv7-clone-manual srv7-clone Domain successfully renamed
After rename view
virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - office_image shut off - srv6 shut off - srv7 shut off - srv7-clone Shut off - srv7.1 shut off - ubuntu-17.04 shut off
Hence, with Just one command we could able to rename KVM Guest Machine Name.
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