Virtual Box is the freely solution from Oracle to have virtual machines on your PC. We provide a serie of tutorials on how to use different aspects of Virutal Box. Each tutorial can be followed individually. Cloning is an important process when you use virtual machines. We present the different s and in whichmethods to create a clone. They differentiate in the speed and the size they use on disk.
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#11 Create a Full Clone Full Clone is the most used method. It is the slowest and will use the same size as the original VM. It does a complete copy of the VM. |
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#12 Create a Linked Clone • Faster to generate; • They use less space; • From a linked clone you can always generate a full clone. |
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#10 Full clone and linked clone methods in the same tutorial. Full Clone is the method by which you, is the slowest and will use the same size as the original VM. do a complete copy of the VM. Linked clone is a fast method with a minimal space usage. The disadvantage is that you always need the original VM since the clone contains only the differences with the original VM. |
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You can follow the training on Virtual Box Networking