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copy virtualization image <image> to <new-path>

Copies an image to a new path relative to the /var/lib/libvirt/images folder.

copy virtualization imageimage to new-path
image
An image file relative to /var/lib/libvirt/images.
new-path
An image file location relative to /var/lib/libvirt/images.

Operational mode.

Use this command to copy an image to a new path. All the image paths are relative to the /var/lib/libvirt/images folder.

Any existing image at the new path is overwritten.

The following example shows how to copy an image to a new path.

vyatta@vyatta:~$ show virtualization images 
an-image.qcow2

vyatta@vyatta:~$ copy virtualization image an-image.qcow2 to an-image-copy.qcow2

vyatta@vyatta:~$ show virtualization images 
an-image-copy.qcow2
an-image.qcow2