Before cloning a VM, you may want to prepare the source VM with the Sysprep utility to reset and remove the unique security identifier (SID) for the VM, and avoid issues such as two computers have a same IP address or two computers have the same computer
name. This step is recommended for VM that is joined to Active Directory (AD) domain on the same network, but is not required most of the time, and can usually be skipped for virtual machines running as workstation. Once its done, right click the existing
VM in Hyper-V manager console and select ‘Export’. Specify the location where you want to save the exported VM. You can click on Browse button to select a folder. Avoid choosing the same location as the .vhd file (virtual hard disk file) for the existing VM.
Import the saved VM files
From the right pane in Hyper-V Manager Console, select the ‘Import Virtual Machine’ option
This will open a pop-up wizard for you. In wizard, click next and then specify the location where you saved the files during export time:
Click next, and then it will show the name of virtual machine if its able to read the exported files. Click next here and select import type as shown:
We have chosen the third option as we would not like to interfere with existing VMs in the console. Click next and it will ask to specify a folder location to store the virtual machines configuration files. You can leave it as default as Hyper-V will create
a unique ID for the cloned VM
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