1. A method for acquiring and utilizing a quiesceing set of information associated with a virtual machine, the method comprising: running a virtual machine on a host computer system; cloning the virtual machine without interrupting the operation of the virtual machine, wherein a persistent storage device is associated with the cloned virtual machine; running the cloned virtual machine; executing a shut-down process on the cloned virtual machine without executing a shut-down process on the virtual machine, wherein the shut-down process quiesces a running state of the persistent storage device by transforming the running state of the persistent storage device into a quiesced state and automatically produces a quiesceing set of information of the cloned virtual machine after the shut-down process has been initiated without executing any quiescing module that quiesces a specified virtual machine, and wherein the shut-down process automatically stores the quiesceing set of information of the cloned virtual machine on the persistent storage device, the quiesceing set of information of the cloned virtual machine including information associated with the running state of the cloned virtual machine in the quiesced state; upon storing the queisceing set of information of the cloned virtual machine on the persistent storage device, sending a disk image of the persistent storage device to a second virtual machine that recognizes the disk image as an attached virtual disk; and separate from execution of the virtual machine, the cloned virtual machine, and the second virtual machine, performing an operation on the stored quiesceing set of information on the persistent storage device.