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Porting software to Linux VM?

I have software that I created deployed in a Linux virtual machine. I would like to deploy a second copy of the software to a second virtual machine. Ideally, I would like to just clone the VM volume, run a second copy, change the IP address, etc. Is it there anything else, or is it just that simple.

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You need to change the hostname in the Linux virtual machine. This is the only thing that is needed for the internal virtual machine.



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Sounds good to me if your VM software is smart enough to change the MAC address of a VM (VMware at least)



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I've done this before in VMWare Workstation and Player. There is a MAC address in the VMX file that you can just change and VMWare will complain about the VM moving (only between physical machines I guess) but you just say create a new one when it starts and everything will be fine ...

Of course, you may have applications that don't like you doing this (license compliance administrators or anything that stores the MAC or IP address between program runs and checks to ensure it hasn't changed).

Also, I keep all my virtual machines in their own directories so there are no conflicts. Otherwise, you will have to rename files and change references to those files in VMX and other configurations.

I think you just need to suck it and watch.

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