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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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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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How to setup a Ubuntu server 16.04 host machine, for running several virtual machines
i need some help with setting up my host machine for running virtual servers on ubuntu server.
I have a server with 4x2TB SAS which are in raid6 using raid adapter (dell perc h730p).
The idea is to ...
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How to make (and restore) an application snapshot in runtime?
I'm trying to make a snapshot of a running application, in runtime, and restore it afterwards. By 'snapshot' I mean complete state of my application - I suppose that's just memory pages and CPU ...
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Customize and sysprep modern.ie virtual machines say for VirtualBox?
Has anyone done this or know if possible and the steps? MS has VMs for testing IE on modern.ie site. They're clean base images one extract and imports into VM software of choice like VirtualBox to ...
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What's the diffrence between snapshot-create and snapshot-create-as in virsh kvm?
On my virtualization system there are some VMs. One of them was aimed for testing some services on it. So in this case I need to have the first state of that VM.
I searched for a solution found the ...
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Quickest way to merge all snapshots in VirtualBox?
I have vdi with quite a number of snapshots taken from it - say, 50 or 70 snapshots.
I want to have one plain vdi with a current state. These snapshots take way too much disk space and are not needed ...
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