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I'm not finding anything online with a clear cut answer to reusing VM snapshots to create more guest clients. &nbsp;When i create a snapshot it resides in the snapshot manager of the VM I created it &nbsp;under. &nbsp;If I create another VM I'd like to be able to use a previous snapshot of another functioning VM so I'm not having to recreate the whole thing. &nbsp;At the moment I'm using VM Converter to point to an ISO off of a windows share and create the VM or Clone it by point VM Converter to an existing VM and duplicating it but this takes such a long time; any advice?
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I'm not finding anything online with a clear cut answer to reusing VM snapshots to create more guest clients.  When i create a snapshot it resides in the snapshot manager of the VM I created it  under.  If I create another VM I'd like to be able to use a previous snapshot of another functioning VM so I'm not having to recreate the whole thing.  At the moment I'm using VM Converter to point to an ISO off of a windows share and create the VM or Clone it by point VM Converter to an existing VM and duplicating it but this takes such a long time; any advice?

Is it possible to use a VM Snapshot to create multiple systems?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.