{"id":645,"date":"2007-10-14T13:09:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T18:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/14\/how-to-clone-a-virtual-machine-with-vmware-server"},"modified":"2008-01-11T03:39:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T08:39:16","slug":"how-to-clone-a-virtual-machine-with-vmware-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/14\/how-to-clone-a-virtual-machine-with-vmware-server","title":{"rendered":"How to clone a virtual machine with VMWare Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There didn&#8217;t seem like a clear way to make a copy (or clone) of a virtual machine with VMWare Server. Not with the 1.0.3 build-44356 which comes standard with the Ubuntu Commercial repository (one of the good virtues of Ubuntu).<\/p>\n<p>So, I fired up the console, and did:<br \/>\n<tt>cp -ax Centos\\ 5\/ Centos\\ 5-new<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>It took 4m5.643s to copy this on my laptop hard disk (only 1.5GB). I loaded it into VMWare, via their <strong>Open a virtual machine<\/strong> option, renamed it in the inventory, powered my new virtual machine on and was asked if I&#8217;d like to create a new UUID for it. I&#8217;d advise you to create one, and once that was done, my virtual machine is ready to go.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bytebot.net\/shots\/create-new-uuid-vmware.png\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Create a new UUID, and you&#8217;re set<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Exactly what I like. Not re-installing CentOS everytime. Just create a &#8220;golden&#8221; image and start cloning from there. Maybe with some slack\/puppet integration in the future, if I end up using a lot of VMs.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/linux\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">linux<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/virtualization\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">virtualization<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/vmware\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">vmware<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/vmware%20server\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">vmware server<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cloning%20an%20image\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">cloning an image<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/image\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">image<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/clone\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">clone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/testing\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">testing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/testbed\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">testbed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/test%20environment\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">test environment<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20How%20to%20clone%20a%20virtual%20machine%20with%20VMWare%20Server&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F10%2F14%2Fhow-to-clone-a-virtual-machine-with-vmware-server&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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