Auto restoring virtualbox machine

[Zuni]

Hi Guys,

How can i go about restoring Vitualbox to a certain state lets say at a frequency of 3hrs.

What i am trying to do :

I am currently running training using Virtualbox and every morning i have to restore snapshots manually and would like to automate this process ?

please help

[scottgus1]

Take a look at the manual, section 8.17, the 'VBoxManage snapshot' command

[Zuni]

Hi Scot,

In the manual i do not see anything on a timed restore ? but i am thinking a script that runs the command @ interval should work.
Thank you let me try that

[scottgus1]

Yes, Virtualbox does not have a function to time a vboxmanage command, but you can use Windows Task Scheduler or a cron job (? I'm not a Linux guy) to run a batch file with the vboxmanage command in it.

If you have a Windows host, and you wish to have the batch file window not show in the screen while it is running, you can point your Task Scheduler task at this vbscript file (save as a text file with .vbs extension):

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set shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "driveletter:\path\to\batchfile.cmd",7 ' 7: minimized; 0: hidden

The 7 makes the batch file window minimized to the taskbar, 0 hides the window completely, no icon in the taskbar.

[Zuni]

Thank you mate,
will definitely work on it