1. A method for acquiring a quiesceing set of information associated with a virtual machine, the method comprising: running a virtual machine on a first host computer system cloning the virtual machine without interrupting the operation of the virtual machine to run on a second host computer system, wherein a persistent storage device is associated with the cloned virtual machine; and transforming the state of the persistent storage device into a quiesced state of the cloned virtual machine; executing a shut-down process on the cloned virtual machine, wherein the shut-down process quiesces the cloned virtual machine; and automatically storing the quiesceing set of information of the cloned virtual machine on the persistent storage device; wherein the second host computer system comprises hardware components separate from hardware components of the first host computer system.