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Sharing a virtual machine
You can share and reuse virtual machines between computers and users. To do
so, you migrate the virtual disk file to a shared network server. Once a
virtual machine is created and configured it can be accessed by any computer
that can run Workstation. You simply migrate the files that are needed by the
virtual machine to the shared network location.
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Sharing a virtual machine is very useful and can enable a variety of activities
including:
- Deploying
new operating systems to users. IT can use virtual machine sharing to deploy
new environments to corporate users via a virtual disk file with the operating
system configuration stored on a shared network drive.
- Freeing
up disk space locally by moving virtual disk files to a shared network drive
and deleting them from the local hard drives.
- Reuse
a template virtual machine for various purposes such as installing a
pre-configured computing environment into a template virtual machine, and then
copying the virtual machine to use it for various testing purposes.
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