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Santhosh
Santhosh

Reputation: 11788

KVM + virsh: the storage pool is empty

I am new to KVM and virsh command

I want to change my storage-pool to some other folder

but before that i dont see any default storage pool

$ virsh pool-list --all                

 Name   State   Autostart
---------------------------

the following happens when i try to dump xml (which i am trying to change default storage location)

$ virsh pool-dumpxml default > pool.xml
error: failed to get pool 'default'
error: Storage pool not found: no storage pool with matching name 'default'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3585

Answers (1)

kp-a
kp-a

Reputation: 80

Here you can create a new default storage pool:

  1. create a new directory for the storage pool - here "homelab" will be used as an example.

    $ mkdir -p /kvm/pools/homelab

  2. define the pool

    $ virsh pool-define-as --name default --type dir --target /kvm/pools/homelab

    Pool default defined

  3. set the pool to start at the same time as libvirtd

    $ virsh pool-autostart default

  4. start the pool

    virsh pool-start default

Here you can create a pool with another name instead of default. To change the storage path of a existing pool, use the command:

$ virsh pool-edit default

Finally, observe the pool using virsh pool-list

Upvotes: 2

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