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If no one can give me any useful advice, I'll try this: Since my VMs are configured as Linux "services" in the host, I will change the /etc/init.d script to perform a "revert to snapshot" on the immutable VDI after a successful VM stop. Something equivalent might also be possible...

I have a VM with an "immutable" swap partition, and tmp partition, as those data should not be permanently stored. I was planing on having the VM shutdown once a day, copy the snapshot files as backup, and then restart the VM, but discovered that the snapshot files for immutable VDI aren't...

OK, I compared the VDI UUIDs, and the UUID of the original VDI is inside the snapshot section, while the UUID of the snapshot VDI is outside the snapshot section. That makes no sense to me. I would be very grateful to anyone who can explain this.

OK, I am running the newest VB under Linux host. I have a Linux VM, with one snapshot. After configuring it for about a week, I finally got to where I wanted, and thought it was time to make a new snapshot, so that I wouldn't run the risk of loosing my work of the last week. That's where the trouble...

Thank you for the tip on my profile. I haven't been in this forum for a while, and things have changed. In the case I am trying to solve, both the host and the guest (more to come) will be Ubuntu Server i386 9.10 (until next LTS comes out). I have two Internet IP (I mean REAL public IP addresses, no...

My host is Ubuntu Karmic i386 Server. I want to run my webserver in a VM. I have configured the VB NAT so that the VM port 80 is mapped to the host 8080 (as host 80 doesn't work). The mapping is done to the localhost IP, but what I need is to map the port 80 of the Internet IP of the host to the por...

My Provider doesn't give me access to the console of the server I am renting (so I can't install Linux myself), and doesn't offer Ubuntu as pre-installed distribution, unfortunately. I can about manage with Debian, but it has got this really annoying bug that it only supports QWERTY keyboard layout ...

If I have the choice between the following Linux versions, and I personally don't care (because I prefer Ubuntu anyway, which isn't available) except for the stability/performance of VirtualBox, which would be the one to recommend as headless host?

Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, Fedora, CentOS, FreeBsd

First oof, I'm using Linux as host and guest. If I'm using snapshots as diff-backups of an offline VM, is there a way to create the snapshot without the VDI that contains the swap file/partition? My point being that once I have copied the original VM from server A to server B (including swap VDI), I...