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>>Unfortunately, I don't have a clear image of what all those items >>really mean, probably because I don't have VMWare workstation or >>player installed. For example, I'm not clear on what a snapshot is. >>I would have thought it is just a paused instance of a VM. If that's >>the case then creating a snapshot should be easy: pause, copy image, >>resume original. But apparently the player cannot create a >>snapshot. Does that mean you cannot pause the player? If i remember correctly, when you create a virtual machine you set it's disks to be normal (all changes are written to the image file), persistent? (all changes are written to a secondary file), and i think there's a third one I'm forgetting. with normal it is just like using a real machine. updating a package will update the disk image. but with the other option all changes are written to a journal. As the vm runs looks for files it looks first at the journal file and then at the disk image. It is sorta like unionfs in Linux. When you look at the files there is another one sitting next to the disk image files. In addition if you suspend the machine (workstation only) there is yet another file that holds the contents of ram etc. In the old version where they did not have Teams, you had to copy these files around and use hardlinks/softlinks to conserve disk space. If you get a base install that is 600M and then want to use it to try out different versions of a package, you make a link to the base disk images and use the persistent disk feature so that all changes are written to extra files. I put them in separate directories named based on the package I was trying. I have not used Teams but suspect they manage this process for you and make it cleaner. - -- JT Morée PC Xperience, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEIqL3ucZ4lMT2d5IRAv6QAJ4nunifTzCuSdGZkQrjXCxz5FCw/gCfcQ3G hEG3+CXdGvbiFqtffShfMP8= =b94b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
