Cloning Openvz Proxmox PVE container guest machine Rumi, November 4, 2015December 13, 2016 I first created a ‘template’ vm containing all stuff I need and using a temporarily ip adres. In the network config file of eth0 (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0) I comment out the HWADDRESS line, else it will not come up with another mac address… Stop this ‘template’ vm as it is just used for cloning. Create a backup : vzdump –dumpdir /path/to/backupdir –snapshot 101 Restore in new container : vzrestore /path/to/backupdir/backupfile_of_container_101 102 or vzrestore –storage ‘storagename’ /path/to/backupdir/backupfile_of_container_101 102 Create a new mac for eth0 : vzctl set 102 –netif_add eth0 Modify the hostname in the proxmox webinterface. Bootup the vm and open a vnc console. Change the ip address in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Go to /etc/ssh and remove all keys : rm -f /etc/ssh/*key* Restart the ssh server so it will regenerate keys : service sshd restart Administrations Configurations (Linux) OpenVZ Cloning VMOpenVZProxmoxPVE