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| | Joining a domain from a VirtPC ? If I join a domain from a virtual XP system, is the system portable ? Can I just copy the virt PC to another system with virtual PC running and create a new PC and point it to the copied files ? Does the virtual PC tie its self back to the host system some how ? Thanks |
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| | Re: Joining a domain from a VirtPC ? You can copy the files and start it up on a 2nd host machine, however if the original instance is running you'll run into duplicate hostnames and ip address issues initially. You can obviously change those once you start the machine up and everything will appear to be working okay. The hidden issue however is the VM's SIDS, those unique ids that differentiate the machine from all the other machines in the domain. You can change the SIDS using NewSID from SysInternals. I'd still recommend taking the VM out of the domain and readding it after running NewSID. A better solution in my opinion is to sysprep the original VM and then the copies will change the SIDs when they start the first time, and join the domain as well. I use "master" machines all the time to create new one, the masters are syspreped and never get turned back on. "sid" <sidwelle@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:447de5e2-2bf6-41ed-87a5-284764f0dd49@xxxxxx Quote: > If I join a domain from a virtual XP system, is the system portable ? > > Can I just copy the virt PC to another system with virtual PC running > and create a new PC and point it to the copied files ? Does the > virtual PC tie its self back to the host system some how ? > > Thanks |
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| | Re: Joining a domain from a VirtPC ? On Sep 5, 11:10*am, "Tim Walsh" <tmwa...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > You can copy the files and start it up on a 2nd host machine, however if the > original instance is running you'll run into duplicate hostnames and ip > address issues initially. You can obviously change those once you start the > machine up and everything will appear to be working okay. The hidden issue > however is the VM's SIDS, those unique ids that differentiate the machine > from all the other machines in the domain. You can change the SIDS using > NewSID from SysInternals. I'd still recommend taking the VM out of the > domain and readding it after running NewSID. > > A better solution in my opinion is to sysprep the original VM and then the > copies will change the SIDs when they start the first time, and join the > domain as well. I use "master" machines all the time to create new one, the > masters are syspreped and never get turned back on. > > "sid" <sidwe...@xxxxxx> wrote in message > > news:447de5e2-2bf6-41ed-87a5-284764f0dd49@xxxxxx > > > Quote: > > If I join a domain from a virtual XP system, is the system portable ? Quote: > > Can I just copy the virt PC to another system with virtual PC running > > and create a new PC and point it to the copied files ? * Does the > > virtual PC tie its self back to the host system some how ? Quote: > > Thanks- Hide quoted text - > - Show quoted text - |
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| | Re: Joining a domain from a VirtPC ? On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:36:34 -0700 (PDT), sid <sidwelle@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > >Where can I find a copy of "sysprep" ? and is it easy to use ? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577 -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) |
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| | Re: Joining a domain from a VirtPC ? On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:36:34 -0700 (PDT), sid <sidwelle@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >On Sep 5, 11:10*am, "Tim Walsh" <tmwa...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >> You can copy the files and start it up on a 2nd host machine, however if the >> original instance is running you'll run into duplicate hostnames and ip >> address issues initially. You can obviously change those once you start the >> machine up and everything will appear to be working okay. The hidden issue >> however is the VM's SIDS, those unique ids that differentiate the machine >> from all the other machines in the domain. You can change the SIDS using >> NewSID from SysInternals. I'd still recommend taking the VM out of the >> domain and readding it after running NewSID. >> >> A better solution in my opinion is to sysprep the original VM and then the >> copies will change the SIDs when they start the first time, and join the >> domain as well. I use "master" machines all the time to create new one, the >> masters are syspreped and never get turned back on. >> >> "sid" <sidwe...@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> >> news:447de5e2-2bf6-41ed-87a5-284764f0dd49@xxxxxx >> >> >> Quote: >> > If I join a domain from a virtual XP system, is the system portable ? Quote: >> > Can I just copy the virt PC to another system with virtual PC running >> > and create a new PC and point it to the copied files ? * Does the >> > virtual PC tie its self back to the host system some how ? Quote: >> > Thanks- Hide quoted text - >> - Show quoted text - >Where can I find a copy of "sysprep" ? and is it easy to use ? It's prety straight-forward, run it and follow the prompts. It can get complex depending on what you're trying to do. On XP, it's in the support\tools\deploy.cab -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ I do not work for Microsoft. |
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