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For automating a full backup of a VM, is exporting as an appliance better than cloning the VM?
I recently had a mishap on my VM, where for somereason the settings of my
BridgeNetwork got changed randomly. I had to spend quite a bit of time to
figure out the root cause. Rightnow, I manually copy ...
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How do I clone a running VMware Workstation?
I have a running virtual machine with a task that cannot be turned off. I tried to snapshot it but unfortunately, it won't allow me to use a snapshot that is powered on to create a new cloning machine....
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Taking a snapshot of your HDD, so you can revert back to it anytime
I have an OS installed in VirtualBox and like how I can take a snapshot of the current state of the OS before making changes to it, from changing settings, to installing software, to applying updates, ...
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Should I be using snapshots or clones for my purposes?
I have a VirtualBox machine representing a "clean" install of my OS. I would like to use this VM for several types of machines - one for simple games, one for programming, one for my audio editing. ...
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VirtualBox - can I clone a snapshot?
I have a VirtualBox VM machine and I took a few snapshots.
VirtualBox works on a Window7 x64 and plays a Window7 x64 system as well.
Now I would like to clone the very first snapshot but I would ...
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Deleting Snapshots from LinkedClone Corrupts other LinkedClones
I am currently having a problem in which I have 3 LinkedClones created from the same parent snapshot.
The tasks I do consists of creating a lot of snapshots per virtual machine, therefore having the ...
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