I've been battling Windows 11 to get it installed as a VM, and I have finally gotten it to "work" (Windows 11 apparently being no one's favorite OS). I would like to make a backup of the qcow2 file, except I can't find it. I'm sure this doesn't give enough information, so someone please tell me what you need to know about my file system, etc. Thanks.
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You don't say which hypervisor front end you're using, but QEMU/KVM uses /var/lib/libvert/images. You can also look at the XML file for the machine in question and the location of the virtual disk will be in there. Also, if you're using QEMU/KVM the location is set in the "Connection Details" > "Storage" settings and you can set a custom location if you wish. I have a dedicated drive for VM's so I store everything on it.
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Thanks, OL. You are right; I'm using QEMU/KVM. Thanks also for the reminder to back up the XML file as well.Comment
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