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Chapter 10 Cloning, Moving, and Sharing Virtual Machines
To specify a UUID for a virtual machine
1Poweroffthevirtualmachine.
2Opentheconfiguration(.vmx)filewithatexteditor.
3Searchforthelinethatcontainsuuid.bios.
Theformatofthelineisuuid.bios = "<uuid_value>",withquotationmarks
aroundtheparametervalue.Followingisanexampleoftheconfigurationsetting:
uuid.bios = "00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77-88 99 aa bb cc dd ee ff"
4ReplacetheexistingUUIDvaluewiththespecificUUIDvalue.
5 Saveandclosethefile.
6Poweronthevirtualmachine.
ThenewUUIDisusedwhenthevirtualmachineboots.
Cloning a Virtual Machine
Installingaguestoperatingsystemandapplicationscanbetimeconsuming.With
clones,youcanmakemanycopiesofavirtualmachinefromasingleinstallationand
configurationprocess.
Clonesareusefulwhenyoumustdeploymanyidenticalvirtualmachinestoagroup.
Forexample:
AnMISdepartmentcancloneavirtualmachineforeachemployee,withasuiteof
preconfiguredofficeapplications.
Avirtualmachinecanbeconfiguredwithacompletedevelopmentenvironmen t
andthenclonedrepeatedlyasabaselineconfigurationforsoftwaretesting.
Ateachercancloneavirtualmachineforeachstudent,withallthelessonsandlabs
requiredfortheterm.
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