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How to Clone a VM in VMware

The document discusses how to create a clone virtual machine in VMware to overcome the time-consuming process of installing an operating system. There are two types of clones - full clones, which are independent virtual machines without needing access to the parent, and linked clones, which remain connected to the parent virtual machine and allow for sharing of disk files. The tutorial then outlines the steps to create a linked clone by right clicking a virtual machine, selecting clone, and choosing the option to create a linked clone and selecting its location.

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How to Clone a VM in VMware

The document discusses how to create a clone virtual machine in VMware to overcome the time-consuming process of installing an operating system. There are two types of clones - full clones, which are independent virtual machines without needing access to the parent, and linked clones, which remain connected to the parent virtual machine and allow for sharing of disk files. The tutorial then outlines the steps to create a linked clone by right clicking a virtual machine, selecting clone, and choosing the option to create a linked clone and selecting its location.

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How to make a Clone Virtual Machine


Well as you can see that it is very time consuming to install an operating system on the vmware,
so how can we overcome this problem?
Note: if you dont know how to install a virtual machine in vmware please go through these two
topics
1. How to make a virtual machine
2. How to install OS in vmware
The answer is "CLONE VIRTUAL MACHINE", with this concept you can make multiple
clone machine of a original machine but its mac address and some other properties are different
from parent virtual machine. It is very useful when you are testing some network environments
because if you make a clone of virtual machine after the installation of operating system or some
default settings of the network you can revert back to the default configuration if you have a
clone version of that machine.
For example if you have install the Microsoft office on the parent operating system after that you
have created a clone of the parent operating system, so MS Office will also be copied in that
clone virtual machine . So it is good in environments where you want to install the operating
system for the employees and after the installation you will install the MS Office and blah
blah....... So it come in a handy tool for the network administrator to reduce the load of the bulky
installation of softwares.
There are two types of clone in vmware
1. Full Clones
A full clone is an independent virtual machine, with no need to access the parent. Full
clones do not require an ongoing connection to the parent virtual machine. Because a full
clone does not share virtual disks with the parent virtual machine, full clones generally
perform better than linked clones. However, full clones take longer to create than linked
clones. Creating a full clone can take several minutes if the files involved are large.
2. Linked Clones
A linked clone is made from a snapshot of the parent. All files available on the parent at
the moment of the snapshot continue to remain available to the linked clone. Ongoing
changes to the virtual disk of the parent do not affect the linked clone, and changes to the
disk of the linked clone do not affect the parent.
A linked clone must have access to the parent. Without access to the parent, a linked
clone is disabled.
So in this tutorials we will make a linked clone of a virtual machine.
So first you will go to the virtual machine and right click on the virtual machine go to mange and
click clone.

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Click on Next->Next->Create a linked clone

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Select the location of clone virtual machine and then click finish, after some time clone will be created.

Click on close. You will see at the top left panel that there is a machine created.

Thats it.
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