Changeset 105300 in vbox for trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/cloningvdis.dita
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r99797 r105300 3 3 <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="cloningvdis"> 4 4 <title>Cloning Disk Images</title> 5 5 6 6 <body> 7 <p> 8 You can duplicate hard disk image files on the same host to quickly produce a second virtual 7 <p> You can duplicate hard disk image files on the same host to quickly produce a second virtual 9 8 machine with the same OS setup. However, you should <i>only</i> make copies of virtual disk 10 images using the utility supplied with <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. See 11 <xrefhref="vboxmanage-clonemedium.dita"/>. This is because <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> assigns a UUID to9 images using the utility supplied with <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. See <xref 10 href="vboxmanage-clonemedium.dita"/>. This is because <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> assigns a UUID to 12 11 each disk image, which is also stored inside the image, and <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> will refuse 13 12 to work with two images that use the same number. If you do accidentally try to reimport a 14 13 disk image which you copied normally, you can make a second copy using the 15 <userinput>VBoxManage clonevm</userinput> command and import that instead. 16 </p> 14 <userinput>VBoxManage clonevm</userinput> command and import that instead. </p> 17 15 <p> 18 16 Note that Linux distributions identify the boot hard disk from the … … 32 30 <pre xml:space="preserve">hdparm -i /dev/sda</pre> 33 31 </body> 34 32 35 33 </topic>
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