vboxmanage-clonevm

Clone VirtualBox virtual machines

TLDR

Clone VM

$ vboxmanage clonevm [vmname] --name [newname]

Clone with full clone

$ vboxmanage clonevm [vmname] --mode all --name [newname]

Clone and register

$ vboxmanage clonevm [vmname] --name [newname] --register

SYNOPSIS

vboxmanage clonevm vmname [options]

DESCRIPTION

vboxmanage clonevm creates a copy of an existing virtual machine. Supports full clones (independent) and linked clones (sharing base disk). Useful for creating test environments from templates.

PARAMETERS

--name name

Name for cloned VM.

--mode mode

Clone mode (machine, machinechildren, all).

--register

Register clone with VirtualBox.

--basefolder path

Clone to specified folder.

--snapshot name

Clone from snapshot.