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Why Make a Clone?
Installing and configuring a guest operating system with applications can be time consuming. With clones, you can deploy many copies of a virtual machine from only one installation and configuration process.
Clones are useful when you must deploy many identical virtual machines to a group. For example:
A MIS department can clone a virtual machine for each employee, with the suite of pre-configured office applications.
A teacher can clone a virtual machine for each student, with all the lessons and labs required for the term.
Alternately you may want to reuse a baseline machine configuration. You may have work that depends on reusing identical testbeds, or testbeds that are identical except for a few key differences. This is often required in testing and development environments.
With clones you can conveniently make complete copies of a VM, without browsing a file system or worrying if you have located all the configuration files.