<li>Create compressed backups of your other virtual machines.</li>

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<li>You should make a copy of the xml configuration file in case you "wipe" and re-install the host machine, and want to add a restored VM backups to the virtual machine manager list. We will demonstrate using the fedora 3 xml configuration file, and prove that a "clone" can be added to your list.Please perform the following step:<ol type="a">

<li>Execute the following command: <code>virsh dumpxml fedora3 >fedora3.xml</code></li>