This guide is for existing VM’s. Backup VM config virsh dumpxml <vmname> > ~/vmname.xml Replace vmname with Virtual Machine (Domain) name. You can find correct name by running virsh list --all Image Conversion Find path of existing image (in qcow2) format virsh dumpxml <vmname> | grep file Will show something like: <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/ubuntu-kvm/t