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Subject: Re: creating a virtual clone
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David,

My solution is http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/technotes/archives/2015/01/30/how-to_clone_a_freebsd_virtual_machine_on_vmware/index.html
certainly not the best/fastest, but it works.

Best regards,

Olivier

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:43 AM, David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com> wrote:
> To test some new software, I'd like to replicate a 9.3-RELEASE machine
> and run it as a virtual machine (in this case inside VMware vSphere, but
> I'm open to using other hypervisors if this isn't possible with VMware).
>
> The 9.3 host is itself virtual, running as a VPS instance in a colo.
>
> What's the best way to do this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> dn
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