Quick change of Hyper-V UID – for Register in place VM
June 30, 2014 The Amixa Web Guru Windows Server
If you want to quickly create copies of one Hyper-V Virtual Machine, here is an easy process:
1) change the XML UID by editing the XML file within the Exported VM directory.
2) change the name to the new machine name (this is the XXXXX tag)
3) change the global_id
4) change the logical_id (to the new global ID)
5) save the file
6) rename the XML file to match the global ID
7) import – register in place (use the existing unique ID)
8) adjust any settings on the VM
9) start the VM
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