Installation guide

C H A P T E R 2 Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines
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After adding this option to the configuration file, restart the virtual machine. The new
UUID is used when the virtual machine restarts.
Setting the UUID for a Virtual Machine that Is Being Moved
If you plan to move a virtual machine and want it to have the same UUID it did before
the move, you must note the UUID being used before the move and add that UUID to
the configuration file after the move. Follow these steps:
1. Before moving the virtual machine, examine its configuration file. Complete one
of the following:
• In the management interface, click the arrow to the right of the terminal icon
for that virtual machine and select Configure Options in the virtual machine
menu (see Using the Virtual Machine Menu on page 95), then click the link
under Verbose Options.
• Log in to the service console and, using a text editor there, open the virtual
machine’s configuration file (.vmx).
If the virtual machine’s UUID has been set to a specific value, the configuration
file has a line that begins with uuid.bios. Note the 128-bit hexadecimal value
that follows. This is the value you should use in the new location.
If there is no line beginning with uuid.bios, look for the line that begins with
uuid.location and note the 128-bit hexadecimal value that follows it.
2. Move the virtual machine’s disk (.dsk) file to the new location.
3. Use the management interface to create a new virtual machine configuration
and set it to use the virtual disk file you moved in the previous step.
4. Edit the virtual machine’s configuration file to add a uuid.bios line, as
described in Setting the UUID for a Virtual Machine that Is Not Being Moved on
page 82. Set the value of uuid.bios to the value you recorded in step 1. Also,
remove the uuid.location line in the virtual machine’s configuration file.
5. Start the virtual machine. It should now have the same UUID as it did before the
move.