Joey,
thanks for your reply. I think i misunderstood you.
In my experience the client had the dev server in a VM Ware machine and cloned it to a qa environment and gave it to us.
We tried to configure the cloned server from server manager, registry, services, etc and we never got it to function properly.
We had to do it twice and lost a lot of time.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Santiago