Cloning a VM along with it's Snapshot

Hi there

My use case is as follows :

I have a set of VM's on which I have some snapshots, these snapshots are meant for lab purpose for students to rollback and move forward.

Now I want to create multiple such set of VM's, for which I thought let me clone, but the moment I clone all the snapshots on the new VM's are gone and disks are consolidated. So is there any way to retain the Snapshots on the new VM while copying/cloning.

Any pointers on the above will be much appreciated. Thanks

Regards,

Born2Learn