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Chapter 10 Cloning, Moving, and Sharing Virtual Machines
Allfilesavailableontheparentatthemomentyoutakethesnapshotcontinuetoremain
availabletothelinkedclone.Ongoingchangestothevirtualdiskoftheparentdonot
affectthelinkedclone,andchangestothediskofthelinkedclonedonotaffectthe
parent.
Alinkedcl
onemus
thaveaccesstotheparent.Withoutaccesstotheparent,youcannot
usealinkedclone.Youcanmakealinkedclonefromalinkedclone,butkeepinmind
thattheperformanceofthelinkedclonedegrades.Whenpossible,makealinkedclone
oftheparentvirtualmac
hine.
Ifyoumakeafullclonefromalinkedclone,however,thefullcloneisanindependent
virtualmachinethatdoesnotrequireaccesstothelinkedcloneoritsparent.
Linkedclonesarecreatedswiftly,soyoucaneasilycreateauniquevirtualmachinefor
eachtask.Youcanalsoea
silyshareavirtualmac
hinewithotherusersbystoringthe
virtualmachineonyourlocalnetwork,whereotheruserscanquicklymakealinked
clone.Thisfacilitatescollaboration.Forexample,asupportteamcanreproduceabug
inavirtualmachine,andanengineercanquicklymakealinkedcl
oneofthatvirtual
machinetoworkonthebug.
Creating Clones
Ifyoudecidetocreatealinkedcloneandyouwanttopreventtheparentvirtual
machinefrombeingaccidentallydeleted,enabletemplatemodebeforeusingtheClone
VirtualMachinewizard.
Enable Template Mode for a Parent Virtual Machine of Linked Clones
Topreventany onefromdeletingtheparentvirtualmachineforalinkedclone,
designatetheparentasatemplate.Whentemplatemodeisenabled,avirtualmachine
cannotbedeletedoraddedtoateam,andthevirtualmachine’ssnapshotscannotbe
deleted.
To enable template mode for a parent virtual machine of linked clones
1 Selectthevirtualmachinetouseasaparentofyo
urli
nkedclone.
2Verifythattheparenthasatleastonesnapshot.
Openthesnapshotmanagerandcreateasnapshotifnoneexists.See“Snapshot
ManagerOverview”onpage 208.
3 ChooseVM>Settings.
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