You can make a VM by importing an existing exported VM. Like cloning, exporting and importing a VM is a means for creating additional VMs of a certain configuration. You might, for example, have a special-purpose server configuration that you use many times. Once you have set up a VM the way you want it, you can export it, and later import it, creating another copy of your specially-configured VM. This also provides a simple way to move a VM to another XenServer Host.

When importing a VM, you can choose to preserve the MAC address on any virtual network interfaces associated with it. If you do choose to generate a new MAC address, be sure to follow the appropriate preparation procedure for the imported VM (see Section 3.4, “Preparing to clone a Windows VM” for Windows and Section 4.5, “Preparing to clone a Linux VM” for Linux).

Importing an exported VM will take some time, and depends on the size of the VM and the speed and bandwidth of the network connection between the XenServer Host and XenCenter.