[PVE-User] New virtual machine from backup?

[Gerald Brandt]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guy" <guy at britewhite.net>
> To: "Gerald Brandt" <gbr at majentis.com>
> Cc: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 9:19:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] New virtual machine from backup?
> 
> Yes of course. Isn't that kids the point on backups!
> 
> I do this all the time anyway. I snapshot my windows systems and then
> restore them from backup, once I've infected them with malware.
> 
> ---Guy
> (via iPhone)
> 


Hi Guy,

But if I'm looking at this the right way, I would need to create the VM first, and have to know it's disk configurations, etc.  Then I would have to do a restore.  If I get the disk configurations wrong, what happens to the restore attempt?

I'm coming from a Citrix XenServer world, where I can snapshot, export, and create a new VM from the exported file (import), without needing to know any details of what i am importing.


Gerald