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Created December 11, 2012 05:13
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A shell function to duplicate a VMWare Fusion 5 virtual machine, including renaming the innards.
function duplicate_vm() {
local from_name=$1
local to_name=$2
cp -r $from_name.vmwarevm $to_name.vmwarevm
pushd $to_name.vmwarevm > /dev/null
rm vmware*.log
mv $from_name.nvram $to_name.nvram
mv $from_name.plist $to_name.plist
mv $from_name.vmsd $to_name.vmsd
mv $from_name.vmx $to_name.vmx
mv $from_name.vmxf $to_name.vmxf
sed -i '' "s/$from_name/$to_name/" $to_name.vmxf
sed -i '' "s/$from_name/$to_name/" $to_name.vmx
sed -i '' "s/$from_name/$to_name/" $to_name.plist
popd > /dev/null
}
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