> Yes, I do it all the time.
>
> The trick is to sysprep your Master Hard drive and then never boot with it
> again, because as soon as you do you wipe out the sysprep. The other trick
> is to make sure when you create your new differencing disks you point back
> to the Master disk and not one of the other disks you've created from the
> Master.
>
>
> "CNenzel" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> Is it possible to sysprep a base image and use Differencing Disks to
>> deploy more than one VM using the sysprep vhd as the parent disk,
>> creating separate child disks for each vm?
>>
>> My first attempt appeared to go well - the first machine I brought up
>> went through the Sysprep steps on initial boot but the second machine I
>> brought up did not. If this is possible could someone point me to the
>> steps to complete this procedure?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>

> Is it possible to sysprep a base image and use Differencing Disks to
> deploy more than one VM using the sysprep vhd as the parent disk, creating
> separate child disks for each vm?
>
> My first attempt appeared to go well - the first machine I brought up went
> through the Sysprep steps on initial boot but the second machine I brought
> up did not. If this is possible could someone point me to the steps to
> complete this procedure?
>
> Thanks!