Workstation User’s Manual
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ThisUUIDisgeneratedwhenyouinitiallypoweronthevirtualmachine.Aslongas
youdonotmoveorcopythevirtualmachinetoanotherlocation,theUUIDremains
constant.TosetaspecificUUID,see“SpecifyaUUIDforaVirtualMachine”on
page 218.
UUID Options When You Move a Virtual Machine
Whenyoupoweronavirtualmachinethatwasmovedorcopiedtoanewlocation,a
messageappears,askingwhetheryoumovedorcopiedthevirtualmachine.Ifyou
indicatethatyoucopiedthevirtualmachine,anewUUIDisgenerated.
Suspendingandresumingavirtualmachinedoesnottriggertheprocessth
at
generates
aUUID.TheUUIDinuseatthetimethevirtualmachinewassuspendedremainsinuse
whenthevirtualmachineisresumed,evenifitwascopiedormoved.Thenexttimethe
virtualmachineisrebooted,themessageappears.
Set the Virtual Machine to Always Keep or Always Create a UUID
IfavirtualmachineissettoalwayskeeporalwayscreateaUUID,usersarenot
promptedwhenavirtualmachineismovedorcopied.Youcansetthispropertyby
editingthevirtualmachine’sconfigurationfile.
To set the virtual machine to always keep or always create a UUID
1Poweroffthevirtualmachine.
2Opentheconfiguration(.vmx)filewithatexted
itor.
3Addthefollowingline:
uuid.action = "<action>"
Thevaluefor<action>canbeeithercreate,toalwaysgenerateanewUUID,or
keep,toalwaysretaintheUUID.
Specify a UUID for a Virtual Machine
AlthoughUUIDsareautomaticallyassignedtovirtualmachines,youcanoverridethe
generatedUUIDvalueandassignaspecificUUID.
TheUUIDisa128‐bitinteger.The16bytesofthisvalueareseparatedbyspaces,except
foradashbetweentheeighthandninthhexadecimalpairs.Followingisanexampleof
aUU
ID:
00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77-88 99 aa bb cc dd ee ff
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