Most guides for l'installation Windows on VirtualBox to act as a template for quick Windows jobs tell you to take a few steps to prepare the Machine virtuelle avant l'installation Windows (the best guide I found: grahamrhay.wordpress.com; another fairly good guide: www.windowstablettv.com). Malheureusement, Je n'ai pas read these guides avant l'installation and activating Windows sur le VM I wanted to use as a template.
Je veux know comment clone my déjà-active VM in such a way that would not require re-activation from Windows.
Looking dans le template VM Definition fichier (the VBOX or XML fichier for the VM), the /VirtualBox/Machine/Hardware (XPath ID) node has no uuid attribute. But, si je try to use VBoxManage modifyvm <uuid|name> --hardwareuuid <uuid> to set a nouveau UUID for the template VM, ensuite the template VM loses its activation status! (Thankfully, I had made a backup du template.) So, to accomplish my aim, Je ne peux pas just follow those guides pretending that Je n'ai pas installé Windows yet.