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Hi,

Using Virtualbox 3.18. I have read the manual but I would like to be 100% sure. I know I could experiment this but if you know this off-hands, can you please let me know.

1. I took a snapshot (named Snap1) while the VM was still running.

2. Then I made a change: install a new application.

After testing, the new application seems to be stable. I don't need to keep the snapshot Snap1 created in Step1 above. I shutdown the VM. Select the snapshot Snap1 and delete it.

Question1: when the VM is booted would it contain the application installed in Step2?

Question2: Snap1 was the only snapshot, after it is deleted, would VM be contained entirely in the original VDI (myDevVM.vdi) ? Meaning that I can safely empty the folder MyDevVM\Snapshots ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

This would really depend on when they changed the snapshot feature. Seems it was around that time. Before it was a dice shoot on what would happen. The wording was so that you would think it meant one thing and it meant another. read the Users manual to be sure.

And whatever the manual says, NEVER clear the snapshots folder without checking if the file that is in there is in the VM settings or Media Manager. It's quite possible it turned into a saved state because the VM was running when you created the snapshot. Removing the file manually will remove the changes in it.