Creating a blueprint from a deployed item

Hi All,

I've been trying to figure out how to put create a new blueprint from a deployed VM(or put it in a catalog in vCloud terms). So I have deployed a VM from a blueprint, made changes, e..g. installing software etc. I then undeploy the VM and I want to create a blueprint that will clone that VM. Here are several things I've tried:

1. Marking the VM as a template and do a bulk import for it to become a managed machine, then create a blueprint that clones the template.

2. Create a snapshot of the VM and create a a blueprint that will clone from the snapshot

Any other ideas would be much appreciated.