# Cloning VM host

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/cloning-vm-host/1844>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cloning-vm-host/1844 "2016-02-23T22:42:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cloning-vm-host/1844/1 "2016-02-23T22:42:38Z")

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Just for the records, in case someone else runs into that…

I had a VM running Docker with Rancher agent. I decided to clone the VM to start another host. The result is that it would register with Rancher as the original host - same ID…

```
root@docker2:/var/lib# docker logs d0fbaa558ece
INFO: Starting agent for 1E8C605DC66644270C5B

root@docker1:/var/lib# docker logs 4bca13e94cb1
INFO: Starting agent for 1E8C605DC66644270C5B

```

Solution was to delete `/var/lib/rancher` to clear the data cached.