virt-clone command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix virt-clone command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

virt-clone: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: virt-clone: command not found

In Ubuntu virt-clone is provided by virtinst package.

virtinst is:

This package contains some command line utilities to create and edit virtual machines:

virt-clone: cloning existing inactive guests; it copies the disk images, and defines a config with new name, UUID and MAC address pointing to the copied disks
virt-install: provision operating systems into new virtual machines
virt-xml: easily edit libvirt domain XML using virt-install’s command line options

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install virtinst

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install virtinst.

sudo apt -y install virtinst

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install virtinst

In this tutorial we learn how to fix virt-clone command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.