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26<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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31<refentry id="vboxmanage-clonemedium" lang="en">
32 <refentryinfo>
33 <pubdate>$Date: 2023-04-21 21:59:02 +0000 (Fri, 21 Apr 2023) $</pubdate>
34 <title>VBoxManage clonemedium</title>
35 </refentryinfo>
36
37 <refmeta>
38 <refentrytitle>VBoxManage-clonemedium</refentrytitle>
39 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
40 </refmeta>
41
42 <refnamediv>
43 <refname>VBoxManage-clonemedium</refname>
44 <refpurpose>create a clone of a medium</refpurpose>
45 <refclass>&product-name;</refclass>
46 </refnamediv>
47
48 <refsynopsisdiv>
49 <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-clonemedium">
50<!-- The 'id' is mandatory and must start with 'synopsis-'. -->
51 <command>VBoxManage clonemedium</command>
52 <group choice="req">
53 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>uuid</replaceable></arg>
54 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>source-medium</replaceable></arg>
55 </group>
56 <group choice="req">
57 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>uuid</replaceable></arg>
58 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>target-medium</replaceable></arg>
59 </group>
60 <group>
61 <arg choice="plain">disk</arg>
62 <arg choice="plain">dvd</arg>
63 <arg choice="plain">floppy</arg>
64 </group>
65 <arg>--existing</arg>
66 <arg>--format=<group choice="plain">
67 <arg choice="plain">VDI</arg>
68 <arg choice="plain">VMDK</arg>
69 <arg choice="plain">VHD</arg>
70 <arg choice="plain">RAW</arg>
71 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>other</replaceable></arg>
72 </group></arg>
73 <arg rep="repeat" role="compact">--variant=<group choice="plain">
74 <arg choice="plain">Standard</arg>
75 <arg choice="plain">Fixed</arg>
76 <arg choice="plain">Split2G</arg>
77 <arg choice="plain">Stream</arg>
78 <arg choice="plain">ESX</arg>
79 </group></arg> <!-- Value can be repated with comma separator. Difficult to express with docbook. -->
80 </cmdsynopsis>
81 </refsynopsisdiv>
82
83 <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-clonemedium-description">
84 <title>Description</title>
85 <para>
86 The <command>VBoxManage clonemedium</command> command enables you
87 to clone an existing medium (virtual disk, DVD, or floppy), which
88 is typically an image file. Only the Universally Unique Identifier
89 (UUID) differs between the original image and the cloned image.
90 </para>
91 <para>
92 You can use the Virtual Media Manager to transfer the cloned image
93 to another host system or reimport it into &product-name;. See
94 <xref linkend="virtual-media-manager" /> and <xref linkend="cloningvdis" />.
95 </para>
96 <variablelist>
97 <varlistentry>
98 <term><replaceable>uuid</replaceable> | <replaceable>source-medium</replaceable></term>
99 <listitem><para>
100 Specifies the UUID or the absolute or relative file name of
101 the source medium to clone. You can specify the UUID of the
102 medium only if it is registered. Use the <command>VBoxManage
103 list hdds</command> command to list registered images.
104 </para></listitem>
105 </varlistentry>
106 <varlistentry>
107 <term><replaceable>uuid</replaceable> | <replaceable>target-medium</replaceable></term>
108 <listitem><para>
109 Specifies the UUID or the absolute or relative file name of
110 the target (clone) medium. You can specify the UUID of the
111 target medium only if it is registered. Use the
112 <command>VBoxManage list hdds</command> command to list
113 registered images.
114 </para></listitem>
115 </varlistentry>
116 <varlistentry>
117 <term><literal>disk</literal> | <literal>dvd</literal> | <literal>floppy</literal></term>
118 <listitem><para>
119 Specifies the type of the medium to clone. Valid values are
120 <literal>disk</literal>, <literal>dvd</literal>, and
121 <literal>floppy</literal>. The default value is
122 <literal>disk</literal>.
123 </para></listitem>
124 </varlistentry>
125 <varlistentry>
126 <term><option>--existing</option></term>
127 <listitem><para>
128 Performs the clone operation by overwriting an existing
129 target medium. The result is that only the portion of the
130 source medium that fits into the existing target medium is
131 copied.
132 </para><para>
133 If the target medium is smaller than the source, only the
134 portion of the source medium up to the size of the target
135 medium is copied.
136 </para><para>
137 If the target medium is larger than the source, the
138 remaining part of the target medium is unchanged.
139 </para></listitem>
140 </varlistentry>
141 <varlistentry>
142 <term><option>--format</option></term>
143 <listitem><para>
144 Specifies the file format of the target medium if it differs
145 from the format of the source medium. Valid values are
146 <literal>VDI</literal>, <literal>VMDK</literal>,
147 <literal>VHD</literal>, <literal>RAW</literal>, and
148 <replaceable>other</replaceable>.
149 </para><remark>
150 What file formats can <replaceable>other</replaceable> be?
151 </remark></listitem>
152 </varlistentry>
153 <varlistentry>
154 <term><option>--variant=Standard | Fixed | Split2G | Stream | ESX [,...]</option></term>
155 <listitem><para>
156 Specifies the file format variant for the target medium,
157 which is a comma-separated list of variants. Following are
158 the valid values:
159 </para><itemizedlist>
160 <listitem><para>
161 <literal>Standard</literal> is the default disk image
162 type, which has a dynamically allocated file size.
163 </para></listitem>
164 <listitem><para>
165 <literal>Fixed</literal> uses a disk image that has a
166 fixed file size.
167 </para></listitem>
168 <listitem><para>
169 <literal>Split2G</literal> indicates that the disk image
170 is split into 2GB segments. This value is for VMDK only.
171 </para></listitem>
172 <listitem><para>
173 <literal>Stream</literal> optimizes the disk image for
174 downloading. This value is for VMDK only.
175 </para></listitem>
176 <listitem><para>
177 <literal>ESX</literal> is used for some VMWare products.
178 This value is for VMDK only.
179 </para></listitem>
180 </itemizedlist><para>
181 Note that not all variant combinations are valid. Specifying
182 incompatible variant values in the list will produce an
183 error message.
184 </para></listitem>
185 </varlistentry>
186 </variablelist>
187 <note>
188 <para>
189 For compatibility with earlier versions of &product-name;, you
190 can use the <command>clonevdi</command> and
191 <command>clonehd</command> commands instead of the
192 <command>clonemedium</command> command.
193 </para>
194 </note>
195 </refsect1>
196
197 <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-clonemedium-examples">
198 <title>Examples</title>
199 <remark role="help-scope" condition="GLOBAL" />
200 <para>
201 The following command creates a clone of the
202 <filename>disk01.vdi</filename> disk image file. The clone is
203 called <filename>disk02.vdi</filename>.
204 </para>
205<screen>$ VBoxManage clonemedium disk01.vdi disk02.vdi</screen>
206 <para>
207 The following command creates a clone of the
208 <filename>disk01.vdi</filename> disk image file. The clone is in
209 VMDK format and is called <filename>disk02.vmdk</filename>.
210 </para>
211<screen>$ VBoxManage clonemedium disk01.vdi disk02.vmdk --format VMDK</screen>
212 </refsect1>
213
214 <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-clonemedium-see-also">
215 <title>See Also</title>
216 <para>
217 <xref linkend="vboxmanage-list" />
218 </para>
219 </refsect1>
220</refentry>
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