cloned VM has the same hardware UUID

[ITMan01]

Hi,

As titled, this is causing an issue that both VM are treated as the same machine when enroll them to the Device Managed solution, like Apple Profile Manager. PM won't allow the same device to be enrolled as two different machines. So I cannot enroll both machine. I think the HWUUID is the problem here, is there any way that we can change it?

Thanks!

edit by Wil van Antwerpen changed "clonded" in title to "cloned"

[wila]

Hi,

ITMan01 wrote:

I think the HWUUID is the problem here, is there any way that we can change it?

Not sure if you actually mean you verified the HW UUID between both VMs and it is the same for both VMs.

Normally I would expect a clone via the GUI to assign a new hardware UUID to the VM, but maybe you cloned the VM using Finder in the file system?

The UUID is in the vmx file for the VM. It is easy enough to change via a plain text editor (warning OS X "TextEdit" app might corrupt the vmx to it replacing normal quote characters with "fancy quotes")

What might be a more robust approach is to unregister the 2nd VM in the GUI using the delete option.

Eg. in Fusion Library window, right click the VM, choose Delete, select "Keep file", rename the VM or move it to a different folder.

Open the VM using File Open. Select Run. Fusion will popup a dialog, "the virtual machine might have been moved or copied"

It will ask you to answer the question. Selecting "I Copied it" will assign the VM a set of new hardware id's.

Selecting "I moved it" will keep the current hardware id's.

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Wil

[sixfoot5ins]

I'm getting the same problem,

After copying a VM (10.9 or 10.10) a new UUID is generated in the .vmx and vmxf files of the VM but the Hardware UUID in the OS is the same as the one I copied.

Would really like to know if there is a fix to update the OS Hardware UUID as I have more VMs to copy and can do without setting them up from scratch.

I'm also using Casper to enrol them after copying, as the Hardware UUID isn't changing it overwrites the original VMs record.

Thanks

Fusion 8

10.95 & 10.10.5 VMs