Hello Everyone,
I am trying to get familiar with Virtual box(6.1.16r140961) and wondering how can I reuse the crated VMs. Like in VMware workstation I created the necessary Win Servers and then run a sysprep >> I copy this fresh image and paste it whenever I want to use it multiple times that brings up the new machine for me. Similarly in Linux, I do the necessary configuration and shutdown the machine. Copy this customized installation and paste it multiple times to reuse.
Tried doing the same in Virtual Box, however got the following error:
Failed to open virtual machine. Trying to open a VM config which has the same UUID as an existing virtual Machine >> Seems Virutal Box is assinging the machine IDs and hence the error. How do I re-use a VM instead of creating a fresh VM everytime which takes more time. Snapshot is fine for a single machien but I need to create multiple servers to test the use-cases.
Regards
Reusing VMs on VirtualBox 6.1
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Re: Reusing VMs on VirtualBox 6.1
Howto: Move a VM.
But if you want to make two copies on the same host then you should be cloning. See user manual section 1.13.
But if you want to make two copies on the same host then you should be cloning. See user manual section 1.13.