SID Change Necessary?

[StevenFL02]

I have created an XP virtual machine. I plan on having several people run this virtual machine on several different hosts at the same time and on the same network.

Everyone will choose that they Copied this virtual machine when prompted.

Do I absolutely have to change the SID (and run something like sysprep) on these virtual machines? If I don't, will I get network errors?

Thanks.

[vmroyale]

Hello.

Changing the SID is not required. You can read about it at Mark Russinovich's blog.

You will still want to run sysprep or manually change the names and addresses though.

Good Luck!

[WoodyZ]

Everyone will choose that they Copied this virtual machine when prompted.

Adding the following parameter to the .vmx configuration file will avoid the message box and act as if the user clicked "I copied it".

uuid.action = "create"

Also if you ever want the same for "I moved it" you'd add the following:

uuid.action = "keep"

This way the users do not need to be bothered with answering "I copied it" or "I moved it".