Week Two Lab

Ernest Williams
 For week two, we were instructed to pick up where we left off last week with the VMs

that we created in VMware and Virtual Box. We had to create a clone and a template of the

virtual machines on both platforms. Below I will describe the steps that we took to complete this

week’s objectives for the lab.

The first step I took was creating a clone of the Ubuntu virtual machine on VMware. I

choose VMware first since I find VMware to be more a difficult platform to work with when

compared to Virtual Box. Creating the clone on VMware was quite easy, I simply right-clicked

on the virtual machine (Ubuntu) and hit the manage tab, once that was complete there was the

option to clone the machine. I cloned the machine and chose to create a linked clone. Once

complete I finished the cloning process and named it as instructed, as that was the end of the first

task. With Virtual Box the process was also easy. Within seconds I had created a clone by

replicating the same steps that were used with VMware, only this time I pressed a button in the

settings rather than right-clicking the VMware hypervisor Ubuntu machine and finding the clone

section under the manage tab.

Creating the template was an interesting learning experience. I never had to create a VM

template on any hypervisor, so the task was somewhat confusing to me in the beginning. I had

confused the differences between a clone, a snapshot, and a template. But that only lasted for a

couple of hours and after understanding what a template was, the process of creating a template

became much easier. What I decided to do was to create a template based on the Ubuntu clones

that I had created. I choose this option over the others because I felt the clone Ubuntu machine

was the basic standard that I had wanted for my machine. If I were an administrator, the

templates that I had created for both hypervisors from the clones would be the “golden image”

for all other VMs that would be created in the future.

Below are the screenshots of the Clones and Templates: