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clone systems with tar command

I have several machines which I want to be exactly identical. It is the first time I am trying to clone machines and I searched on the internet and found many people archive and extract their disks using some tools, using dd, and I also found someone using tar. I read about different tools. I tried g4u, a tool for hard disk image cloning, but it didn't boot. Now, I am more familiar with tar and I created an archive of the whole file system of one machine using tar (tar -czvlps −−same−owner −−atime−preserv -f machine.tgz /) and I extracted this tar on other machines (tar -xslpzf machine.tgz). I did this with machines booted on CDs, mounting the drives and copying over network.

When I reboot I see the new machines with hostname as expected, I try login with the old password combinations, however I get "permission denied" and I am thrown back to login. When I try ssh to a new machine I get "unable to get valid context." Permissions and files should be exactly the same on the new machine (and look as if they were, although I didn't do any extensive comparisons).

Now before I try other stuff or go into long search of the problem, I am suspecting that I miss something and I want to ask people who have done this before. Am I making some stupid mistake? I suppose that tar and dd are more or less doing the same thing, or is there any forcing argument for using dd instead. Any help appreciated.

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virt-tar-in

virt-tar-in(1)						      Virtualization Support						    virt-tar-in(1)

NAME

       virt-tar-in - Unpack a tarball into a virtual machine disk image.

SYNOPSIS

	virt-tar-in -a disk.img data.tar /destination

	virt-tar-in -d domain data.tar /destination

	zcat data.tar.gz | virt-tar-in -d domain - /destination

WARNING

       Using "virt-tar-in" on live virtual machines can be dangerous, potentially causing disk corruption.  The virtual machine must be shut down
       before you use this command.

DESCRIPTION

       "virt-tar-in" unpacks an uncompressed tarball into a virtual machine disk image or named libvirt domain.

       The first parameter is the tar file.  Use "-" to read the tar file from standard input.	The second parameter is the absolute target
       directory to unpack into.

EXAMPLES

       Upload a home directory to a guest:

	virt-tar-in -d MyGuest homes.tar /home

JUST A SHELL SCRIPT WRAPPER AROUND GUESTFISH

       This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) "tar-in" command.  For anything more complex than a trivial
       copy, you are probably better off using guestfish directly.

OPTIONS

       Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.

SEE ALSO

       guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-make-fs(1), virt-tar-out(1), <http://libguestfs.org/>.

AUTHORS

       Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat Inc.	<http://libguestfs.org/>

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

libguestfs-1.18.1						    2013-12-07							    virt-tar-in(1)

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