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thx for the infos. would you consider posting or making available the script you are talking about? would be great and confortable for me. thx Jeff Jeff, you've pretty much got the script right there. Just use those excerpts as part of a larger script, with just the names of the new differencing di...

I don't have the first idea what to look for during the reboot. Any ideas?

We have a VM with an immutable disk, so that when that guest OS gets shut down the changes made are thrown away. I'm wondering if there's a setting change I can make so that the differences are thrown away with a restart of the guest OS. I can't keep having to go in and restart a VM when a user shut...

First off, create an immutable disk. Here's how I did that: To make a drive immutable: Get the prototype VM configured exactly as desired for the immutable VM. Export it Open VM VirtualBox Manager Select the VM Select File, Export Appliance Select the machine to export, Next Browse to and select whe...

That's what I suspected, but I appreciate you confirming it. Thank you very much!

Thank you. I read through it and an immutable image looks like what we need, but even after reading thru it I don't seem to understand how we create the image, make it immutable, then switch it back for patching, etc.

We are looking to set up a VirtualBox server with multiple WinXP guest OSes for a lab. We are going to lock down XP, but what we're looking to do is take a "master snapshot" of the guest OS and have it automatically revert to this snapshot upon XP rebooting. Does anyone know of a way to tr...