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