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Chapter 10 Cloning, Moving, and Sharing Virtual Machines

Moving Linked Clones

YoucanmovealinkedcloneasyoudoanordinaryWorkstationvirtualmachine.

However,ifyoumovealinkedclone(orifyoumoveitsparentvirtualmachine),make

suretheclonecanaccesstheparentvirtualmachine.Placetheparentinshared

directoryoronanetworkedfileserver.

Forex

ample,ifyouputalinkedcloneonalaptopandtheparentremainsonanother

machine,youcanusethecloneonlywhenthelaptopconnectstothenetworkordrive

wheretheparentisstored.Touseaclonedvirtualmachineonadisconnectedlaptop,

youmustuseafullcl

oneoryoumustmovetheparentvirtualmachinetothelaptop.

YoucannotpoweronalinkedcloneifWorkstationcannotlocatetheoriginalvirtual

machine.

Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users

Ifyouwantotheruserstobeabletoaccessyourvirtualmachines,considerthe

followingpoints:

 Onlyoneusercanrunavirtualmachineatatime.Otheruserscanalsosharea

virtualmachinebymakingalinkedcloneofit.Alinkedcloneisacopythatuses

thesamevirtualdisksastheparentvirtualmachineitwascopiedfrom.See

“CloningaVirtualMa

chine”onpage 219.

 OnWindowshosts,relocatethevirtualmachinefilestoadirectorythatis

accessibletoallappropriateusers.ThedefaultlocationforaWindowshostisnot

typicallyaccessibletootherusers:

 OnWindowsXP:C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\My

Documents\My Virtual Machines

 OnWindowsVistaandWindows7:

C:\Users\<user_name>\Documents\Virtual Machines

WhenyouconfigurethevirtualmachineintheNewVirtualMachinewizard,you

canspecifyalocationforthevirtualmachineelsewhereonyoursystemorona

networkvolume.

 OnLinuxhosts,setpermissionsforthevirtualmachinefilesappropriately.

Permissionssettingsareespeciallyimportantfortheconfigurationfile(.vmx)and

virtualdisks(.vmdk).Forexample,ifyouwantuserstorunavirtualmachinebut

notbeabletomodifyitsconfiguration,donotmaketheconfigurationfilewrita

ble.

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