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Chapter 10 Cloning, Moving, and Sharing Virtual Machines

Allfilesavailableontheparentatthemomentyoutake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cl

onemus

thaveaccesstotheparent.Withoutaccesstotheparent,youcannot

usealinkedclone.Youcanmakealinkedclonefromalinkedclone,butkeepinmind

thattheperformanceofthelinkedclonedegrades.Whenpossible,makealinkedclone

oftheparentvirtualmac

hine.

Ifyoumakeafullclonefromalinkedclone,however,thefullcloneisanindependent

virtualmachinethatdoesnotrequireaccesstothelinkedcloneoritsparent.

Linkedclonesarecreatedswiftly,soyoucaneasilycreateauniquevirtualmachinefor

eachtask.Youcanalsoea

silyshareavirtualmac

hinewithotherusersbystoringthe

virtualmachineonyourlocalnetwork,whereotheruserscanquicklymakealinked

clone.Thisfacilitatescollaboration.Forexample,asupportteamcanreproduceabug

inavirtualmachine,andanengineercanquicklymakealinkedcl

oneofthatvirtual

machinetoworkonthebug.

Creating Clones

Ifyoudecidetocreatealinkedcloneandyouwanttopreventtheparentvirtual

machinefrombeingaccidentallydeleted,enabletemplatemodebeforeusingtheClone

VirtualMachinewizard.

Enable Template Mode for a Parent Virtual Machine of Linked Clones

Topreventany onefromdeletingtheparentvirtualmachineforalinkedclone,

designatetheparentasatemplate.Whentemplatemodeisenabled,avirtualmachine

cannotbedeletedoraddedtoateam,andthevirtualmachine’ssnapshotscannotbe

deleted.

To enable template mode for a parent virtual machine of linked clones

1 Selectthevirtualmachinetouseasaparentofyo

urli

nkedclone.

2Verifythattheparenthasatleastonesnapshot.

Openthesnapshotmanagerandcreateasnapshotifnoneexists.See“Snapshot

ManagerOverview”onpage 208.

3 ChooseVM>Settings.

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