I am coming from VMWare Server 2.0 on the Windows server, so please bear with me...
What I am used to doing is setting up a number of virtual guests that are just bare-bones installs of the operating system I would like to use for my virtual machine. When I want to create a new virtual machine, I create one without a virtual disk. I then, copy the virtual disk from my bare-bones install to my new virtual machine's directory. I then add an existing virtual disk, the one I just copied over, to my new virtual machine. This works pretty well since I mainly use virtualization for integration testing of my applications.
My question is, what is the best way, in Proxmox, to "clone", if I'm using the right term, base install machines. I basically want to always have a fully updated and patched base install available to spawn new machines from without having to go through the entire install process.
Thank you in advance for any help you can give...
Jim
What I am used to doing is setting up a number of virtual guests that are just bare-bones installs of the operating system I would like to use for my virtual machine. When I want to create a new virtual machine, I create one without a virtual disk. I then, copy the virtual disk from my bare-bones install to my new virtual machine's directory. I then add an existing virtual disk, the one I just copied over, to my new virtual machine. This works pretty well since I mainly use virtualization for integration testing of my applications.
My question is, what is the best way, in Proxmox, to "clone", if I'm using the right term, base install machines. I basically want to always have a fully updated and patched base install available to spawn new machines from without having to go through the entire install process.
Thank you in advance for any help you can give...
Jim
