KVM clone existing VM with new ip and mac

you need a existing VM and the status of the vm should be shutdown/offline.

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virsh list

####info: the output from this command may not show the VM what you want to clone

cloning VM with virt-clone

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	NEWVM=new-vm-unchanged-name
    IMAGEPATH=/mnt/lvmvg01storageraid1 
  PATHTOIMAGE=$IMAGEPATH/${VMNAME}.qcow2
   VMTEMPLATE=debian10-tmpl

virt-clone --original $VMTEMPLATE --name $NEWVM --file $PATHTOIMAGE

info: with command file you can check the type of the new create container file