Hello,
I am having problems understanding how to use snapshots. If you have a look at the attached image, you will see that I have 3 snapshots. How do I go back and forth between the snapshots and make further snapshots based on older snapshots.
For example, lets say I want to load the snapshot 2 without changing snapshot 3. How do I do that?
THen once snapshop 2 is loaded, how do I create another snapshop which branches off snapshot 2 as snapshot 4?
VirtualBox snapshots
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mashcaster
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VirtualBox snapshots
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Re: VirtualBox snapshots
You can only revert to a snashopmashcaster wrote:Hello,
I am having problems understanding how to use snapshots. If you have a look at the attached image, you will see that I have 3 snapshots. How do I go back and forth between the snapshots and make further snapshots based on older snapshots.
Can't be done directly.mashcaster wrote:For example, lets say I want to load the snapshot 2 without changing snapshot 3. How do I do that?
You can create a new machine and use this disks snapshot as that machines disk. Go to Virtual media manager and look under hard disks. Where you have snapshots you will see a small arrow click that now if you select one of those with "ugly names" you will see the name of your snapshot. Find the right one and attach that to a new machine with the same settings as the old.mashcaster wrote:THen once snapshop 2 is loaded, how do I create another snapshop which branches off snapshot 2 as snapshot 4?
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mashcaster
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Re: VirtualBox snapshots
How exactly do I do that? Do I make a copy of the vdi in HardDisks and also the related folder in Machines?