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On 24/04/16 20:25, mr meowski wrote: > On 24/04/16 20:02, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> On 24/04/16 19:50, mr meowski wrote: >>> Lastly, snapshotting is such a vitally useful and simple procedure with >>> VBox I can't really understand why anybody wouldn't use it or run into >>> issues either. Take the snapshot(s), name and number then sensibly and >>> you have a hierarchal tree of past instances to manipulate at will. >>> Sure, it's not as neat or as powerful as the implementation in KVM or >>> ESXi but you can still create clones from snapshots or rewind for >>> testing. What's not to like? >>> >>> Cheers >> Can I pick your brains, perhaps? I had a problem with a particular >> implementation of a VBox Windows7 VM where we wished to make one >> snapshot immutable. It seems there are some tricks to this, as you can't >> just install it, and then snapshot and set some flag (particularly using >> the command-line!). Worse still, trying to detach, mark and re-attach >> and mark immutable the disk file seems to be impossible also. I'm doing >> this by remote over a satellite SSH connection so there's no point >> trying to use GUI instructions alas! Any tips/thoughts/etc?! >> >> MJE > That sounds interesting - have you got some more details? Multiple > disks/VMs or just a single VM with one - presumably base - snapshot? > GUI/shell I think is irrelevant here as advanced features like that only > tend to be available through VBoxManage anyway. > > Cheers > Single VM, single disk image; first clean install snapshot, software installed snapshot (ie. 2/3 base->ready snapshots) then we want to fix the state at this point to avoid any possibility of corruption or alteration of settings by nosy users! Ta, Michael.
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