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How to determine VirtualBox vm has finished snapshot restore
I have a ubuntu host and a windows 10 guest using virtualbox.
And I have written a bash script to control my vm.
I want to shutdown my vm and restore snapshot, then restart it.
But here is a question.
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How to make a snapshot while qemu is running?
Since a fresh booting of the guest OS is very slow, or it is laborious to arrive at a particular machine state, what I want is something like Windows' hibernation: Qemu saves the current state of the ...
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How can I snapshot a VM before booting it for the first time?
I'm running MS trial VM images which are time limited, based on initial boot. MS recommend you store a copy of the downloaded image or take a snapshot before booting:
But how can you snapshot a VM ...
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rebase virtualbox snapshot to another parent
I'm excessively using VirtualBox snapshots (for use in CI-builders), so typically I have a number of snapshots on a single VM.
Often I find my self "forking" a new snapshot from an existing ...
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Is stopping a VM before taking its snapshot best practice?
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I tend to save my VirtualBox VM snapshots while the system is running. This shaves off some time when I resume next work's session.
But I have read in a few places that the best thing to do ...
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Can I continue use my VMware Workstation virtual machine before a snapshot completed?
I'm using VMware Workstation on Windows. When I create a snapshot while my guest VM is running, it will take long time (probably more than 10 minutes) to complete the whole process. During this period,...
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I moved a VM with snapshots and I now cant recover from snapshot
I moved a Virtual Machine and it's files to another pc (moved, not cloned), and now I can't recover from snapshots.
I have all the files (of the VM) but no snapshots shown in the program.
I need to ...
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What is the purpose of snapshots in virtualisation software?
I've recently started using virtualisation software more often, specifically VirtualBox, and the idea of snapshots confuses me.
I understand that they give the user the ability to revert a VM to a ...
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Taking a snapshot of a demo environment
I am using a 27" Late 2015 iMac.
I have a set of applications and websites that I use as part of a demo. Currently, I have to manually load everything at the beginning of the demo and make a set of ...
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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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Hyper-V snapshot/checkpoint behavior with physical hard disk
What is the behavior of the snapshot/checkpoint feature in Hyper-V when there are physical hard disks attached to the virtual machine? I have a virtual machine with four physical disks passed through ...
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Can I export appliance with all the snapshots in VirtualBox (Version 5.1.28)?
I use Oracle VM VirtualBox Version 5.1.28 r117968 (Qt5.6.2) . I have two virtual machines (Windows 7 64bit and Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS) with 8 snapshots in Windows and 6 snapshots in Ubuntu. I want to have ...
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VM very slow after snapshot recover
We have here a Citrix XenCenter with few Virtualized machines. So last week we had to recover a VM from an old snapshot (the current one got lost because of a miss configuration in file permissions). ...
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Is quiescing a VM during a backup necessary for a consistent snapshot of the filesystem?
Do I need to 'quiesce' a running VM to get a consistent snapshot of the disk at a point in time?
I do not care if there are unwritten buffers or if a running application is consistent with the disk. ...
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Deleted AutoProtect snapshots and can't boot VM's
I've had 3 VM's running AutoProtect fine for several months but decided it was pointless and wanted to disable it.
I also simultaneously wanted to enable Persistent Independent disk access. I wasn't ...
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