How to seal a linux virtual machine before creating a clone of it?

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Issue

  • A clone of a KVM guest needs to be created but settings like hostname, IP address, etc. should not be copied. How to accomplish this?
  • A VM was created from a template. This newly created VM is using same disk as that of the base VM from which the template was created.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

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