If you’ve worked with VMware products before, you may have (at at some point likely will), encounter a pop-up similar to this one.

What is it asking? What prompted this question? Why does VMware want the default to be, ‘I copied it’? The short answer is that VMware ‘thinks’ that it is possible that this VM was cloned from a pre-existing VM (i.e. ‘I copied it’). If that is the case, VMware needs to change the unique identifiers within the cloned machine, so that potential hardware & software conflicts are avoided. Choosing ‘I copied it’, therefore, is preferred over ‘I […]