qvm-clone option -p not working

[haaber]

For reasons of disk space I need to clone experimental VM's on the HDD
and not on /var/lib/qubes sitting in my small SSD. So I try in dom0

qvm-clone -p /path-to-HDD/ existing-vm new-name

However, the -p option is ignored:

--> Creating directory /var/lib/qubes/vm-templates/new-name

Of course it fails a minute later by disc-full error. When I generate

/var/lib/qubes/vm-templates/new-name

as a symlink to /path-to-HDD/ qvm-clone hurts as well. I tried a local
copy of qvm-clone where I remove the "dir exists" test, but then the
script hurts later with other symlink problems. Can I clone a VM manually?

Bernhard

[Andrew David Wong]

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You can move some existing VMs to the HDD in order to free up space on
the SSD:

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/secondary-storage/

Then you can clone your desired VMs and allocate them on each drive as
you see fit.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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