Clone an Ubuntu Guest OS VM

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dilipn

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I have a guest OS in Parallels Desktop 9 running Ubuntu. Lets call it VM-1

My goal is to create a VM-2 which starts identical to VM-1. I then want to install different apps inside each VM and have the 2 VMs be completely independent. If I install App-A in VM-1, I do not want to be able to execute App-A in VM-2

How do I achieve this functionality?

I shut down VM-1. Then as per page 135 of Parallels Desktop user guide, I selected VM-1, then File->Clone-> chose name VM-2 and left default for where to create VM files.

Only one of VM-1 or VM-2 can run. If I start one, then start the other, the second VM to start cannot find its hard disk

What am I doing wrong?

Thx
 
Hi,

Please try this way:

-Copy your VM-1 and paste it somewhere locally on Mac HD (lets LATER call it VM-2 in preferences: Virtual Machine -> Configure -> General Tab)
-double click on it -> Parallels Desktop should ask whether the VM was copied or moved -> please click copied

(if for some reason you won't have a pop-up, please try to change a MAC address in VM-2 in the Configuration of the VM-> hardware -> network1 -> generate a new MAC address for it)
-try to boot them

cloning is a bit different thing in terms of virtualization as it uses the same source snapshot to run (virtual hard drive part)

but basically, those workarounds are not fully supported, because you can't do that with commercial VMs, as you can't have lets say 10 VMs with Windows having only one license.

So as a long workaround: just create another instance of Ubuntu VM from the scratch, configure it the same way as you have done it for VM-1.
 
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