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Chapter 9 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine
MostsnapshotmanageractionsareavailableasmenucommandsfromtheVM>
Snapshotmenu.Thefollowingactions,however,areavailableonlyfromthesnapshot
manager:
Renamingasnapshot–TheNametextboxiseditable.Ifyourenameasnapshot
foraclonedvirtualmachine,usetheDescriptionfieldforfutureidentification.
Changingoraddingadescription–TheDescriptiontextboxiseditable.
Deletingasnapshot–See“DeleteaSnapshotoraRecording”onpage 212.
OnLinuxhosts,thesnapshotmanagerhasaslightlydifferentappearance.OnLinux
hosts,right‐clickthetoolbartochangetheiconstyle.Youcandisplayiconsandtext,
iconsonly,textonly,andsoon.
Open and Use the Snapshot Manager
Usethesnapshotmanagertoreviewallsnapshotsfortheactivevirtualmachineand
workonthemdirectly.
To open and use the snapshot manager
1 Selectthevirtualmachine.
2 ChooseVM>Snapshot>SnapshotManager.
3 Selectasnapshotorrecordingandclickthebuttonfortheneededaction.
Toselectmorethanonesnapshotorrecording,Ctrl+clickthene
ededsnapshots
andrecordin
gs.
IftheTakeSnapshotbuttonisdisabled,itmightbebecausethevirtualmachine
hasmultipledisksindifferentdiskmodes.Forexample,ifyouhaveaspecial
purposeconfigurationthatrequiresyoutouseanindependentdisk,youmust
poweroffthevirtualmachinebeforeta
kingasnapshot
.
Take a Snapshot
Youcanusuallytakeasnapshotwhileavirtualmachineispoweredon,poweredoff,
orsuspended.
Followingaretheprerequisitesfortakingasnapshot:
Anysuspendoperationsmustbecomplete.
Thevirtualmachineisnotcommunicatingwithanothercomputer.See“Snapshot
Conflicts”onpage 206.
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