Use the oakcli clone vm command to create an image for a new virtual machine on Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform. By default, the image inherits the content and configuration information from the template or from the virtual machine that you are cloning and resides in the same repository as the source. Unless you are using local repositories for your virtual machines, include the-node clause in the oakcli clone command to identify the node that should run the cloning process. To create a snap clone, which will only contain the configuration metadata, include the -snap clause in the oakcli clone command.