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Chapter 6 Creating a Virtual Machine from a System Image or Another Virtual Machine

Supported Volume Types

Sometypesofsourcevolumes,orpartitions,areunsupportedandareskippedduring

cloning.Virtualmachineimportingsupportsbasicvolumesandalltypesofdynamic

volumesexceptRAID.OnlyMasterBootRecord(MBR)disksaresupported.GUID

PartitionTable(GPT)disksarenotsupported.

Disk Space Allocation

AsisthecasewhenyouusetheNewVirtualMachinewizard,youmustspecify

whethertoallocateallthespaceatcreationtimeorallowthefilestogrow.Allocating

spaceatcreationtimegivesyoubetterperformancebutisatime‐consumingprocess.

VMwarerecommendsthatyouallowthedi

sktogrow.

SelecttheoptionSplitdiskinto2GBfilesifyourvirtualdiskisstoredonafilesystem

thatdoesnotsupportfileslargerthan2GB.

Full or Linked Clones

Ifthesourceisavirtualmachine,youcancreateafullorlinkedclone.OntheVirtual

MachinesOptionspageoftheConversionwizard,selectImportandConverttocreate

afullclone.SelectSharesourceandstorechangesseparatelytocreatealinkedclone.

LinkedclonescanbecreatedfromVMwarevirtualmach

ines,SymantecBackupExec

SystemRecoveryvirtualmachines(.sv2ifiles),MicrosoftVirtualPCandVirtual

Servervirtualmachines,AcronisTrueImage(.tibfiles),andStorageCraftfiles(.spf

files).CreatingalinkedcloneofaVMwarevirtualmachinerequiresthatthevirtual

hardwar eversionofthedestinationmachinenotbehighertha

nthehard

wareversion

ofthesource.

OTEForMicrosoftVirtualPCandVirtualServervirtualmachines,youhaveathird

option.Insteadofcreatingafullorlinkedclone,youcanhavetheconvertedvirtual

machineusetheoriginalMicrosoftvirtualharddisk.Thisoptionmodifiesthesource

virtualmachine.See“MicrosoftVirtualPCandVirtualServerVirtualHa

rdDisks”on

page 137.

CAUTIONForlinkedclones,thevirtualmachinecreatedbythewizardbecomes

corruptedifthesourceismodifiedaftertheimport.Thisistrueforlinkedclones

importedfromVirtualPCandVirtualServermachinesandfromSymantecbackup

images.InthecaseofVirtualPCandVirtualServersourcevirtualmachines,pow

ering

themoninVirtualPCorVirtualServermodifiesthem.

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