another 'snapshot' question

[contador]

Hello,

Im a little bit confused about snapshots.

Let me explain what I would like to do:

I would like a snapshot for IE6, a snapshot for IE7, and another for IE8.

I need to jump between these snapshots, for example from IE8 to IE6.

The way I understand snapshots at the moment is that I can only jump between 2 related states, i.e, the current state and the most recent snapshot (IE8).

Is it possible to jump around from snapshot to snapshot, and if so, how?

[Perryg]

It used to be but not anymore. They are really considered more like a backup now in case you do something in a configuration change or trash the current state and need to revert instead of reloading. I have since stopped using them except as a backup and just clone off of a good VM and setup 2 or 3 to work off of. Takes a bit of space and resources but I can easily run 5 guests in my host and still have memory to do things in the host.

[contador]

I'll look into cloning the good VM.

Thanks Perry

[Perryg]

Another and probably an easier way is to use the VBox program GUI and do an export. Then you import it back in which gives you a complete mirror image of the first one. You can do this as many times as you need.

[contador]

Thats great, thankyou Perry