3. Create a Windows Template
Now that you have created a Windows virtual machine, you can save its settings into a template. This template will retain the original virtual machine's configurations, including virtual disk and network interface settings, operating systems and applications. You can use this template to rapidly create replicas of the original virtual machine. For this lab, name your template FinanWinDesk
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Before your virtual machine can be used to create a template, it has to be sealed with sysprep. This ensures that machine-specific settings are not propagated through the template.
Note that the procedure below is applicable for creating Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 templates. If you wish to seal a Windows XP template, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Administration Guide.