Citrix Systems 6 manual Vm-clone, Vm-compute-maximum-memory, Vm-copy, Vm-crashdump-list

The VM or VMs on which this operation should be performed are selected using the standard selection mechanism (see VM selectors). Optional arguments can be any number of the VM parameters listed at the beginning of this section.

vm-clone

vm-clonenew-name-label=<name_for_clone>[new-name-description=<description_for_clone>] [<vm-selector>=<vm_selector_value>...]

Clone an existing VM, using storage-level fast disk clone operation where available. Specify the name and the optional description for the resulting cloned VM using the new-name-labeland new-name- description arguments.

The VM or VMs on which this operation should be performed are selected using the standard selection mechanism (see VM selectors). Optional arguments can be any number of the VM parameters listed at the beginning of this section.

vm-compute-maximum-memory

vm-compute-maximum-memorytotal=<amount_of_available_physical_ram_in_bytes> [approximate=<add overhead memory for additional vCPUS? true false>] [<vm_selector>=<vm_selector_value>...]

Calculate the maximum amount of static memory which can be allocated to an existing VM, using the total amount of physical RAM as an upper bound. The optional parameter approximate reserves sufficient extra memory in the calculation to account for adding extra vCPUs into the VM at a later date.

For example:

xe vm-compute-maximum-memory vm=testvm total=`xe host-list params=memory-free --minimal`

This command uses the value of the memory-freeparameter returned by the xe host-listcommand to set the maximum memory of the VM named testvm.

The VM or VMs on which this operation will be performed are selected using the standard selection mechanism (see VM selectors). Optional arguments can be any number of the VM parameters listed at the beginning of this section.

vm-copy

vm-copynew-name-label=<name_for_copy>[new-name-description=<description_for_copy>] [sr-uuid=<uuid_of_sr>] [<vm-selector>=<vm_selector_value>...]

Copy an existing VM, but without using storage-level fast disk clone operation (even if this is available). The disk images of the copied VM are guaranteed to be "full images", that is, not part of a copy-on-write (CoW) chain.

Specify the name and the optional description for the resulting copied VM using the new-name-labeland new-name-descriptionarguments.

Specify the destination SR for the resulting copied VM using the sr-uuid. If this parameter is not specified, the destination is the same SR that the original VM is in.

The VM or VMs on which this operation should be performed are selected using the standard selection mechanism (see VM selectors). Optional arguments can be any number of the VM parameters listed at the beginning of this section.

vm-crashdump-list

vm-crashdump-list[<vm-selector>=<vm selector value>...]

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