"Can I clone a VM ?"

"I have spent time coming up with a perfect image (gold image), how can I use ConVirt to provision VMs from it ?"

As I heard quite a few similar queries, I thought it might be useful to have blog entry that explains it. Apart from some differences between VM Cloning and using a reference image, both boil down to having pre-cooked disk(s) that are ready for creating more VMs from it. It is assumed that the environment would use DHCP and other vm specific customizations would be carried out on first boot.

As ConVirt is built with very flexible provisioning scheme, it only takes few simple steps to achieve this.

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