Take and Restore VirtualBox Snapshots

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1. Select the VM to work with from the left pane in the main window.
2. Click the Snapshots button in the upper right corner.
3. Right-click the snapshot you want to restore.
4. Click Restore Snapshot (Figure C).
5. In the resulting window, uncheck the box for Create A Snapshot Of The Current Machine State.

1. How do I get back a snapshot in VirtualBox?
2. Where are VirtualBox snapshots stored?
3. What must you do to take a snapshot with Oracle VirtualBox?
4. Can you restore a VM from a snapshot?
5. Is it safe to delete VirtualBox snapshots?
6. How do VirtualBox snapshots work?
7. Where are vagrant snapshots stored?
8. What is the difference between clone and snapshot?
9. How do I combine snapshots in VirtualBox?
10. What happens when you delete a snapshot VirtualBox?
11. Can VirtualBox take snapshot?
12. How do you take a screenshot on a VM?

How do I get back a snapshot in VirtualBox?

To revert to an earlier snapshot, you right-click on the “Current state” item and select “Revert to current snapshot”. This will bring the VM back to the state of the nearest (most recent) snapshot.

Where are VirtualBox snapshots stored?

VirtualBox snapshots reside in the Machine Folder. You should be able to change the default machine folder using the menu option File->Preferences, under the General tab.

What must you do to take a snapshot with Oracle VirtualBox?

Take a snapshot.

If your VM is running, select Take Snapshot from the Machine pull-down menu of the VM window. If your VM is in either the Saved or the Powered Off state, as displayed next to the VM name in the Oracle VM VirtualBox main window, click the List icon next to the machine name and select Snapshots.

Can you restore a VM from a snapshot?

Select Virtual Machine > Snapshots. Select the snapshot to restore. Click Restore. Click either Save to save a snapshot of the current state before you restore the virtual machine to the selected snapshot state, or Don't Save a snapshot.

Is it safe to delete VirtualBox snapshots?

Snapshots can be deleted quite safely, it's only keeping them around that is unsafe. Make a backup of the VM folder. Be sure to use the VM manager (not the host OS) to delete snapshots.

How do VirtualBox snapshots work?

SUMMARY: "Snapshots" is a feature of "Oracle VM VirtualBox" that allows you to save and then revert back to the exact state of a virtual machine. At any point in time for any virtual machine, you can take a "snapshot".

Where are vagrant snapshots stored?

Normally it is in your profile folder in Windows. I change it to something like "D:\VHDs\VBox\" and there I found my vagrant test vm: ""test01_1347456065"".

What is the difference between clone and snapshot?

A snapshot is a photo of a state of a virtual machine. ... A clone is a copy of a virtual machine. Using clones is convenient if several virtual machines are needed, with more or less the same configuration on each virtual machine. By cloning a virtual machine, you'll make a copy of the actual state of a machine.

How do I combine snapshots in VirtualBox?

Re: Merge snapshot in Virtualbox ? There is no such thing as a ""merge"". Snapshots are markers in time, you can't merge markers. If you no longer need a marker, just highlight it and delete it, but be sure not to pick ""revert to"" as that will lose all your work.

What happens when you delete a snapshot VirtualBox?

Delete a snapshot.

This does not affect the state of the virtual machine, but only releases the files on disk that Oracle VM VirtualBox used to store the snapshot data, thus freeing disk space.

Can VirtualBox take snapshot?

VirtualBox included. It's easy to manage snapshots in VirtualBox--you can take snapshots of a running VM or a VM in a saved or even off state. Once you create a snapshot, you can restore a previous snapshot, delete a snapshot, and view details of a snapshot.

How do you take a screenshot on a VM?

Perform the following steps to take a snapshot of a Virtual Machine:

1. Select the VM in the Resources pane and then click on the Snapshots tab.
2. Click the Take Snapshot button. ...
3. Enter the name of the new snapshot and an optional description.
4. Under Snapshot mode, choose the type of snapshot to create: