>> If you put the disks from one VM into another VM, then the other VM
>> *becomes* the first VM. All VMs are essentially identical; the disks are
>> the only thing that makes them different. Either you want to delete a
>> VM, or you don't. So deleting the settings file and then still using the
>> existing disks is a nonsensical thing to do.
>
> Not if the disk is a data disk, or is used as something other than the
> boot disk.

Wouldn't you just clone the disk for something like that? (Otherwise 
only one VM can access it at a time.)

> Or if it's a base for multiple linked clones where you started from a
> common base, but the clones are different.

Then wouldn't each clone have its own local cloned disk image?

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