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7OntheNameoftheNewVirtualMachinepage,enteranameandapathforthe
clonedvirtualmachineandclickFinish.
Afullclonecantakemanyminutestocreate,dependingonthesizeofthevirtual
diskthatisbeingduplicated.
8ClickClosetoexittheCloneVirtualMachi
newi
zard.
TheCloneVirtualMachinewizardautomaticallycreatesanewMACaddressand
UUIDfortheclone.Otherconfigurationinformationisidenticaltothatofthe
parentvirtualmachine.Forexample,amachine’snameandstaticIPaddress
configurationarenotalteredbytheCloneVirtualMachinewizard.
9Topreventconflictwithstati
cIPaddressing,changetheclone‘sstaticIPaddress
beforethecloneconnectstothenetwork.
See“SelectingIPAddressesonaHost‐OnlyNetworkorNATConfiguration”on
page 304.
Moving a Virtual Machine
YoucantakeavirtualmachinethatwascreatedbyusingWorkstationandmoveittoa
differentcomputerortoadifferentlocationonthesamecomputer.Youcanevenmove
avirtualmachinetoahostwithadifferentoperatingsystem.Forexample,youcan
moveavirtualmachinefromaWi
ndowshosttoaLinuxorESXServerhost.
Ingeneral,movingavirtualmachinemeansmovingthefilesthatmakeupthevirtual
machine.ThepathnamesforallfilesassociatedwithaWorkstationvirtualmachineare
relative,meaningthepathtoeachfileisrelativetothevi
rtualmach
inedirectory.For
example,ifyouareinthevirtualmachinedirectory,therelativepathtothevirtualdisk
fileis<machine_name>.vmdk.
Hosts with Different Hardware
Theguestoperatingsystemmightnotworkcorrectlyifyoumoveavirtualmachineto
ahostwithsignificanthardwaredifferences,suchasfroma64‐bithosttoa32‐bithost
orfromamultiprocessorhosttoauniprocessorhost.
CAUTIONAlwaysmakebackupcopiesofallthefilesinavirtualmachine’sdirectory
beforeyoumoveavirtualmachine.
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