Comments on: Cloning a VM on ESX Server 3.0.1

By: barcelonaflats

barcelonaflats — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:55:13 +0000

very good information..thanks for sharing

By: okgo

okgo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:48:39 +0000

vmware-cmd -s register

doesn't work on 3.5

By: Jose Fernandez

Jose Fernandez — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:43:03 +0000

You can also copy and manually edit the VMX file to reconfigure the new server.

Also note that if you have snapshots this clone process will not clone the data that came after the snapshots. You have to merge the snapshots first – at least as far as I can tell

By: munavar

munavar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:55:22 +0000

this article is very useful and very helpful to me thanks for posting this article. Thanks a lot

By: Ivan Stoev

Ivan Stoev — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:00:03 +0000

Perfect. The VMware Infrastrcture Client Clone operation kept timing out. You saved my weekend! Thank you.

By: Confluence: Valdis Pukis

Confluence: Valdis Pukis — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:15:59 +0000

VMware…

enable SSH access…

By: Jayant

Jayant — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:01:54 +0000

Good Stuff – good article leading to interesting and very useful comments & thoughts.
Thank you

By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:01:53 +0000

Glad you enjoyed it. At this point, I think the comments are possibly more useful than the original article!

By: Satbir

Satbir — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:26:21 +0000

Very helpful article

Thanks

By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:43:44 +0000

I don't think so and there's no reason why I would expect your source to become slow. You can read the clone scripts too and I don't think you'll find anything in there that would be a cause for slowness. There's nothing you have to delete, but if you want to clean up, I think the files that the pre-clone step create are in $OH/clone somewhere.