Clone and reset KVM virtual machine

Clone your VM and spawn new instances in KVM

List all VMs:

virsh list --all

If the target VM is running, suspend it:

virsh suspend debian12-base

Clone the VM:

virt-clone --original debian12-base --name debian12-base-clone01 --auto-clone

Resume the suspended base:

virsh resume debian12-base

Prepare new system to be fresh and working

virt-sysprep -d debian12-base-clone01  --root-password password:abcABC123 --firstboot-command 'dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server'

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