mpack and I had a debate on another topic about this whole issue of snapshot functionality. I use them a lot in my development cycles, whereas he would prefer a template base cloning model. What we both agree about is that the current functionality cries out for extending. Maybe this is one area where a completely standalone utility (as VMware does it) to handle offline processing of VDIs, their backup deltaing, etc. I have a number of Perl scripts that I use to do this sort of stuff myself, but they are really too quick and dirty to publish in their current form.
I have dumped most of my knowledge on the internals of VDIs in my tutorial All about VDIs.
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