On Sun, Feb 08, 2026 at 13:32:51 +0000, wrangle wrote: > I am trying to move virtual machines to a new location on the same > host. I want to preserve not only snapshots, but domain manage saved > state as well as snapshot saved state.
Libvirt provides APIs to be able to re-define the XML embedded in the save images. With virsh you can do: virsh managedsave-edit VMNAME and virsh save-image-edit --file IMAGEFILE > The xml is embedded in the snapshot and domain saved state and paths > base image files are hard coded. I tried to sed replace the paths anda For external snapshots with memory, the memory image a save image so to edit that you can use 'virsh save-image-edit' as there isn't a specific API which would take the snapshot name. Just use the name of the memory image as present in the snapshot XML. > necessary info, but it seems like libvirt expects the xml to be a > certain length so it fails parsing. Parsing fails at different points > of the embedded xml when I change the length of the path in the > embedded xml. That's right, the files need to be edited with the APIs.
