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Understanding VirtualBox Snapshots
I have a base Windows 10 image that I want to make changes to. I have already cloned it to a working copy.
I understand that the smart thing to do is to create snapshots so that I can roll back the ...
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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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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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Make Snapshot of Main OS
Can I make snapshot(something like that) of my main os/host machine(Which in this case is parrot os) ? Because when I use my parrot within a month or so I end up with broken os(because of my tinkering)...
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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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virtualbox snapshot - is it a safe back-up if I want to over-write (dd to) sda1?
I want to do some testing useing chroot to overwrite sda1 (my main partition) in a ubuntu VM. Is taking a virtualbox snapshot a safe way to create a backup?
i.e. in the VM I want to create a chroot ...
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How to convert Virtualbox VM into KVM VM, with latest snapshot included?
I have been trying to change my existing Virtualbox VMs (.vdi) into .qcow2 format and run it on KVM.
I have successfully done the conversion (.vdi > .qcow2) but, the converted VM is not in the same ...
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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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VirtualBox vdi not growing over 32 GB, NS_ERROR_CALL_FAILED when trying to delete snapshot
I am running VirtualBox 5.2.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit. The quest system is Win 10 64-bit.
At some point guest went jammed because vdi disk of dynamic size 100GB refused to grow over 32GB. I have ...
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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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Export a VM with the snapshots?
I have a machine with snapshots at different key points in the configuration.
Now I need to back up this VM, with its snapshots, to another machine.
I tried the "Export" function, but the .ova file ...
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Why does the default UI menu bar for "Machine->Save State" is unchecked in VirtualBox?
You get to the option of changing the VM's menu bar (aka File menu) UI by right clicking on a VM -> Settings... -> User Interface
Is there any special reason for that?
Is there a reason not to save ...
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Can I backup a running virtualbox Virtual machine?
I am currently running a time consuming python script on a virtual machine(It has been running for ~95 hours at the moment). I have no idea how long it will take to complete and am running it on a VM ...
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