When did I have created my VM?

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Plagrö
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When did I have created my VM?

Post by Plagrö »

I have a Linux host and a winXP guest as my VM.

In the meantime I have created some snapshots of this VM and I also have deleted some snapshots, so that at the moment I only have a snapshot with the name "current state".

Is there a way to find out, when I have created this VM? (I mean not the actual snapshot.) Or when I have started this VM the first time? (I mean not when I have started the snapshot "current state" the first time.)

Thank you.
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Re: When did I have created my VM?

Post by fth0 »

AFAIK, VirtualBox does not store the creation date/time of a VM. The most common Linux file systems (ext2, ext3, ext4) do not have a file creation date/time. The most common Windows file systems (NTFS, FAT) do have a file creation date/time.

So you could for example look up the creation date/time of the C:\Users folder, to find out at what date/time you installed Windows XP.
Plagrö
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Re: When did I have created my VM?

Post by Plagrö »

Good idea. Thank you. I was successful.
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