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		MBCook on Sept 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's tough being an Azure fan How could it possibly be a destructive process? Do you mean like cloning VM A destroys it and creates identical VMs B and C?

avidphantasm on Sept 24, 2021 [–]

I think what was happening was, if you wanted to make a VM image (which you could then later clone to new instances), it would result in the original VM (i.e., the source of the image) being no longer usable.

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