In the previous chapter, we have learned how to create a virtual machine based on the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.
Now it is time to discover how to manage the virtual machines you can have in a XenServer environment.
Cloning, converting to template, and converting from physical machine are common tasks which you have to execute in XenServer.
We will use the Windows 7 VM, Win7-Master-VM, which we have created in the previous chapter.
Cloning a virtual machine is useful when you need to set up many identical machines in your environment.
The only supported way to clone a Windows VM is by using the Windows utility, "System Preparation Tool", also known as sysprep
, to prepare the VM.
Computers running Windows operating systems are uniquely identified by a security ID (SID). This security ID must be unique for each Windows machine especially if it is a member of a Windows domain. For this reason, when you clone a Windows VM, it is important...