Build your first lab - 06 vCenter VM cloning and snapshot
Time/Action reference
00:45 Create a VM customization specification
04:16 Prepare VM image, windows update, disable ipv6 and disable auto update
11:00 Cloning VM
17:00 Behavior of the cloned VM - Auto power on
25:30 Behavior of the cloned VM - Applied customization and reboot
29:33 Taking snapshot
30:30 Revert snapshot
For the desktop cloning failure, I reapired the vmware agent and it works again.
Here's the content for registry file content for disabling auto update in desktop OS
=======================NoAutoUpdate.reg Start=======================
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000001
=======================NoAutoUpdate.reg End=======================