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[#]: subject: "Move Virtual Machine Image to Another Host Using GNOME Boxes"
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[#]: via: "https://www.debugpoint.com/move-virtual-machine-image-another-host/"
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[#]: author: "Arindam https://www.debugpoint.com/author/admin1/"
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[#]: collector: "lkxed"
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[#]: translator: "geekpi"
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[#]: reviewer: " "
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Move Virtual Machine Image to Another Host Using GNOME Boxes
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**This guide explains the steps you need to move a Virtual Machine Image to Another Host Using GNOME Boxes.**
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GNOME Boxes is a virtualization utility created by the GNOME project. This utility works as a front end for libvirt. libvirt is an open-source API, daemon, and management tool for managing platform virtualization. It supports different virtualization technologies such as KVM, Xen, VMware ESXi, QEMU, etc.
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If you want to create virtual machines using GNOME Boxes, [refer to this guide.][1]
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In this tutorial, I will explain how you can move any Virtual Machine image file (which is already created and running using GNOME Boxes) to a different host and run it.
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This way, you do not need to re-install the virtual machine from the operating system anymore. Moreover, it is portable and you can carry your virtual machine image in a USB stick.
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### How to Move Virtual Machine Image to Another Host Using GNOME Boxes
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I hope you have already had a virtual machine created in GNOME Boxes; if not, check out [this guide][1].
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- GNOME Boxes and [libvert][2] uses below directories for the virtual machine images and configurations. You need to take backups of each, as mentioned below, carefully.
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- GNOME Boxes keeps the virtual machine’s physical image (usually in the size of GB) in the below path. For each of your virtual machines, you will find an image there.
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~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images/
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```
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![Machine Images][3]
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- Copy the image file to your new host’s path: `~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images/`
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- Copy the libvirt configuration XML from the below path to your new host’s same location.
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~/.config/libvirt/qemu/
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```
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![Image XML][4]
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- In the above path, you should see separate xml files for each of your virtual machines. Copy the one you need.
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- Open the below file in your current system.
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```
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~/.config/gnome-boxes/sources/'QEMU Session'
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```
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- Copy the section (from “[display” … to end of this section) which belongs to your virtual machine. You can easily find it using the name (see below – ‘last seen name’).
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![QEMU Session File][5]
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- Open the same above file in the other host machine and append the copied content at the end. Save the file.
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- Close all applications, including GNOME Boxes, in the new host machine.
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Open GNOME Boxes now, and you should see your virtual machine moved with its contents in your new host.
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You can now have a portable virtual machine that can easily carry and move around. Remember, the target machine should have GNOME Boxes installed to make this work.
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via: https://www.debugpoint.com/move-virtual-machine-image-another-host/
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作者：[Arindam][a]
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选题：[lkxed][b]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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[a]: https://www.debugpoint.com/author/admin1/
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[b]: https://github.com/lkxed
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[1]: https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/05/install-use-gnome-boxes/
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[2]: https://libvirt.org/
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[3]: https://www.debugpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Machine-Images.png
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[4]: https://www.debugpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Image-XML.png
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[5]: https://www.debugpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/QEMU-Session-File.png
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