LXD Guest Migration to New Host

LXD makes it easy to move containers around. LXD expects the new host to be completely setup along with the resources the guest requires or the copy will not proceed.

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# destination

lxc config set core.https_address 192.168.0.1:8443

lxc config set core.trust_password YourPassword

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# source

lxc remote add NewHost 19.168.0.1:8443

lxc copy ContainerName NewHost:ContainerName --mode="push"

# WARNING: do not ctrl-c the copy it will mess up the host LXD and must be reinstalled.