[Resolved] Correlate Snapshot in GUI and in file manager

[pazzoide]

Hello,

in Virtualbox I have many snapshots, I can see them in the file manager, but I don't know which one is which.

IDs (names) in the file manager are not mentioned in the gui (or maybe I couldn't find).

I need this info to check which snapshot is eating too much disk space.

[scottgus1]

Look at the main Virtualbox window, File menu > Virtual Media Manager. Each disk will show its snapshots along with size on the host disk.

[socratis]

I need this info to check which snapshot is eating too much disk space.

The one that starts with "{09f9c17-...}.vdi", clearly, it's taking 34.3 GB!

[scottgus1]

I think I see pazzoide's point better. Both the screenshot and the Virtual Media Manager will show the sizes of the snapshot disks. But which snapshot in the Snapshots description page contains "{09f9c17-...}.vdi"? I can't see that in the Virtual Media Manager, nor in "vboxmanage showmediuminfo", nor in the Snapshots description page in the guest Settings.

[socratis]

Geez, nobody can make a joke anymore?
Of course your answer was right-on-the-money, mine was a size joke!

But, since you "woke me up from my siesta", here's another way to skin a cat:

• 
  VBoxManage snapshot <uuid|vmname> list [--details | --machinereadable]

For example:

$ VBoxManage snapshot "Mac OS X 10.12" list
   Name: 5.1.26-2017.07.28 (UUID: 1dcb2279-d55f-4c36-9342-8924b92d2e1c)
      Name: Live before 10.12.3 to 10.12.6 (UUID: 163a445b-dde5-4f21-ab5c-bf61bbfa033b) *

[pazzoide]

All right, great answers, thank you both