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Hey! I am a web developer currently working on a ruby on rails project. I primarily work on windows but our project uses few gems that only works on *nix systems. So the problem I am facing is that I work on couple of small modules of same project in parallel thus keeps switching between those. Now, for each module to run for test and develop requires its own set of terminal commands not to mention IDE windows, file explorer windows, etc. Every time I start working on a module I have to start all terminal commands and open IDE windows/ file explore and as our project is not yet fully functional and stable since under development its not optimized for speed and performance yet thus each shell script takes too much time to execute and also its really annoying to keep remember and do same things again & again many times a day.

I tried using different snapshots for different work environments but the difficulty is if I install a new package/feature its not available in another snapshot states. I am looking for a way to save different snapshots for different work environments and also a way to share all the new installed packages/features to all the snapshots.

Host : Windows 7
Guest: Ubuntu 12.10 (2 GB, 4 CPU)
CPU: Ci5 , 3.5 GHz
RAM: 6GB

Snapshots can't work like that. Nor can clones (which would incidentally be much safer). If you want information to be installed once and shared then it must be on a shared and non-snapshotted drive (check out write-through mode in section 5.4 of the user manual).