Virsh Vol

List a Volume Pool

• virsh vol-list default

 Name                 Path
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 elan.foreman.lan-disk1 /var/lib/libvirt/images/elan.foreman.lan-disk1
 vol-new              /var/lib/libvirt/images/vol-new
 vol-new.qcow2        /var/lib/libvirt/images/vol-new.qcow2

Create a qcow2 image

• virsh vol-create-as default vol-new.qcow2 10G --format qcow2

Create a raw image

• virsh vol-create-as default vol-new.raw 10G --format raw

Clone a Volume

• virsh vol-clone vol-new vol-clone

Dumo XML from a Volume

• virsh vol-dumpxml --vol vol-new.raw --pool default

<volume type='file'>
  <name>vol-new.raw</name>
  <key>/var/lib/libvirt/images/vol-new.raw</key>
  <source>
  </source>
  <capacity unit='bytes'>10737418240</capacity>
  <allocation unit='bytes'>10737422336</allocation>
  <target>
    <path>/var/lib/libvirt/images/vol-new.raw</path>
    <format type='raw'/>
    <permissions>
      <mode>0600</mode>
      <owner>0</owner>
      <group>0</group>
    </permissions>
    <timestamps>
      <atime>1508272953.383646344</atime>
      <mtime>1508272953.371646487</mtime>
      <ctime>1508272953.375646440</ctime>
    </timestamps>
  </target>
</volume>

Delete a Volume

• virsh vol-delete --vol vol-new.raw --pool default

Vol vol-new.raw deleted

Links

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/Virtualization_Deployment_and_Administration_Guide/sect-Managing_guest_virtual_machines_with_virsh-Storage_Volume_Commands.html