Opening a VM on another machine

[u03pje]

Whenever you attempt to open a VM for the first time on a new machine a message appears asking or you 'Moved or Copied' the VM.

How can you avoid this message from appearing? Can you pass a parameter to avoid this?

[AWo]

Why do you want to avoid that. Answering that questions avoids duplicate MAC addresses.

AWo

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[Tom2k8]

If you need to travel from machine A to machine B it is advisable to keep the unique number, so you have to select 'Move' as the answer. This is specially neccessary for Windows VMs from XP and up, because these OSs will trigger activation when that number gets changed. If you allow the 'copy' to be given a new number, you will face activation issues. An OEM version of Windows is then spoiled...

If your VMs are Linux ones or Windows 2000 and less, then it doesn't matter to create a new number ('Copy') or keep that number ('Move').

My advise is not to get rid of this question.

[continuum]

Can you pass a parameter to avoid this?

Yes - read

http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-advanced.html#uuid

but understand the consequences of setting this.

uuid.action = "keep" means to answer "I moved it ..."

uuid.action = "create" means to answer "I copied it ..."

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