Build your first lab - 06 vCenter VM cloning and snapshot

Time/Action reference 00:45 Create a VM customization specification 04:16 Prepare VM image, windows update, disable ipv6 and disable auto update 11:00 Cloning VM 17:00 Behavior of the cloned VM - Auto power on 25:30 Behavior of the cloned VM - Applied customization and reboot 29:33 Taking snapshot 30:30 Revert snapshot For the desktop cloning failure, I reapired the vmware agent and it works again. Here's the content for registry file content for disabling auto update in desktop OS =======================NoAutoUpdate.reg Start======================= Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU] "NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000001 =======================NoAutoUpdate.reg End=======================