{"id":16924,"date":"2024-01-31T18:19:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=16924"},"modified":"2024-01-31T18:19:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:19:45","password":"","slug":"how-to-clone-a-vm-on-cloudpap","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/docs\/how-to-clone-a-vm-on-cloudpap\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clone a VM on CloudPap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cloning a VM involves creating a VM with the same settings, files, and operating system as the parent VM. In this guide, we will look into how we can clone a VM on CloudPap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Login to your CloudPap dashboard and identify the VM you want to clone. Then click the Clone button below your VM:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-39-44-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16925\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-39-44-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-39-44-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-39-44.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the confirmation button to proceed with the cloning process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-39-52-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16926\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-39-52-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-39-52-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-39-52.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The clone process will begin and may take some time depending on the current data and settings on your VM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the cloning is complete, you will see the cloned VM with a &#8220;clone&#8221; name on its hostname:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-49-57-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16927\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-49-57-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-49-57-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-20-49-57.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now access it via the SSH terminal. If you cannot access it via SSH terminal, even when the cloned VM&#8217;s status is Running, reboot the cloned VM. Remember to use the same user and password as the parent VM:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-21-07-32-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16928\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-21-07-32-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-21-07-32-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-from-2024-01-31-21-07-32.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You have successfully cloned your VM with the same data as the parent VM. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloning a VM involves creating a VM with the same settings, files, and operating system as the parent VM. In this guide, we will look into how we can clone a VM on CloudPap. Login to your CloudPap dashboard and identify the VM you want to clone. Then click the Clone button below your VM:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[130,128],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-16924","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-ssl","doc_category-vps"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":158,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"Ian","author_nicename":"ian","author_url":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/author\/ian\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"SSL","term_url":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/docs-category\/ssl\/"},{"term_name":"VPS","term_url":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/docs-category\/vps\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=16924"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=16924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}