Can I deploy the same virtual machine to VMWare Player running of several PCs without network problems

Hi all

I am a newbie so please forgive if this is a stupid question...

Can I deploy the same virtual machine (XP Pro), with the same machine name and the same GUID for several machines on a network without going through issues such as errors of names duplicate etc. Or will I sysprep prior to deployment.  If so, is there an easier way to do it?

Not sure if this is important, but I need to use Bridged networking due to problems with our personal firewall.

You will need to deal with the dupe GUID. Sysprep is a method.

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