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Clones and templates

Clones and templates - Proxmox VE Tutorial

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Clones and templates

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- [Instructor] Proxmox VE allows us to create a clone of an existing system, should we need to make an exact duplicate of a VM we already have. When we clone a system, though, we get an exact copy of the data on the disk. Proxmox takes care of changing the Mac address of the network interfaces because duplicate max would be a problem. But the data inside the disk image could contain things like SSH machine keys or other keys, the hosts file with a name that would end up being the same on a clone, and so on. We'll need a strategy to change these values or to update them after we create our clone. Different operating systems use different tools and approaches, so you'll need to do some research. The Proxmox Wiki article about VM templates and clones linked in the course notes has some starting points. I'll make sure to shut down my guest here. And then in the guest options, I'll find the more button and I'll click clone. Here in the clone dialogue, we can set the name of the new guest…

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