Usually, you do not need to run two copies of a virtual machine, instead you should perform additional customizations to the new virtual machine so that it has its own customized configuration. By customization, we are referring to the following tasks (depending on the guest OS type):
- Changing the IP address
- Changing the hostname/computer name
- Changing the administrator/root password
- Setting the time zone
- Joining the computer to Active Directory Domain
- Running several initial scripts
To create a new VM customization specification, switch to Policies and Profiles and select VM customization specifications:
- Configure the name of the customization specification and the target guest OS. Based on the selection, ...
