Group I am pretty sure it can be done (have not tested), but I thought maybe a SE or partner could test and confirm, or provide warnings/pitfalls. I am thinking that if I offloaded a copy of a customer's FW, for archival purposes and then needed to make changes, when I am not at the customer site, that I could just load their configuration into my blank VM version of the PA FW, and then "see" their configuration in the UI, all rules, policies, etc. I could make changes to the offline version, on behalf of my customer, and then either commit it when I am onsite, or perhaps securely send the configuration to them, and they could load it. I am sure there are a lot of holes in this concept/thought. I am just thinking that perhaps the VM version of the FW could a stepping stone to a remote/offline configuration utility application, which a partner/SE could pre-configure a customer's FW before going onsite (or even before a demo). Imagine the amount of time savings this could be. Again, I am not sure if the VM could emulate a all hardware platforms, but I wanted to get a response from the community, and if there was enough support, maybe Palo Alto Networks would consider this. Please provide your feedback.
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