Question regarding copying of VMs within storage pool

[kevdog]

So I've recently been blessed by building a second xcp-hypervisor. I'm trying to copy/recreate a VM on the second hypervisor which is located on the initial hypervisor.

I've added both the initial and second hypervisor to a pool. From within Xen Orchestra I selected the hypervisor I wanted to copy and selected the copy option and chose the destination to be the local zfs storage located on the second hypervisor. I waited about 30 min for VM to be copied.

Now what do I do? The copy operation completed -- how do I create the VM the second host using this copied image? Confused what to do at this point.

[olivierlambert]

You are only listing running VMs in your screenshot.

[olivierlambert]

The VM should be visible on the second host, likely in a "halted" state.

[kevdog]

@olivierlambert said in Question regarding copying of VMs within storage pool:

The VM should be visible on the second host, likely in a "halted" state.

Not exactly what I'm seeing here -- in fact I don't see any evidence of any halted VM -- probably because I did something incorrectly.

On the second hypervisor I running a 1Gb nvme drive which was partitioned during the installation process with partitions of /var/log, /boot, /efi, /, and SWP.

I have a second 1Gb SATA drive which I added as a zfs storage pool accessible as /mnt/tank.

Within the zfs pool I can see the copied VM (aedbfce5-7365-4d16-b39c-0b3c93a210f6.vhd).

Do I need to create a VM on the second host using this particular .vhd file?

[olivierlambert]

You mean 1TiB, right?

What did you precisely used to copy the VM? can you screenshot?

[kevdog]

@olivierlambert

Sorry both are 1TB -- I'll correct my prior post to reflect

Here is how I copied the VM --

I choose the SR (zfs disk on hypervisor #2) and chose zstd for compression.

[olivierlambert]

So you should have the VM listed in the Home view, as halted.

[kevdog]

@olivierlambert

Here is my Home view screen -- the VM I'm trying to copy is called "Arch Time Machine". It's up and running on the original hypervisor. There are no running or halted VMs on the second hypervisor

[olivierlambert]

You are only listing running VMs in your screenshot.

[kevdog]

@olivierlambert

Well damn -- you're right.

Well VM now up and running. Just have to figure out how networking works in this new copied VM. Thanks for help.