Cloning virtual machines with database hot?

Hello-

I'm about to start a clone of a virtual machine from Windows running MySQL, and I wonder if I can hot clone the source machine with the database running services. Or is the recommendation to stop database services before the clone?

TIA.

My recommendation is to stop the prior service of the clone process database start since I'm not sure if VSS will work for MySQL as works FRO MS SQL.

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