On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:49 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:33:04 -0800 > Tim Wescott <[email protected]> dijo: > > >> I am using the OSE version on Fedora 11 x86_64. (You didn't say which > >> distro you have.) > > >It may have been there from day 1 -- this is the first, and probably > >last for a long while, time that I tried saving the machine state. > > I don't even know what "saving the machine state" means. When I make a > backup it includes ~/.virtualbox. That folder contains all my installed > machines. > > In my recent peregrination through various distros I discovered that > with a new, fresh install of a distro all I had to do was install > virtualbox, then copy my ~/.virtualbox folder from the previous distro. > All my machines and configurations were instantly available, the same > as before. > > So if it is a backup you want, all you have to do is make a copy of > ~/.virtualbox. > "Saving machine state" means saving all the currently running programs, open windows, etc. to disk, allowing you to quickly resume the machine and get back to what you were doing later. This is the same concept as suspend-to-disk on a regular (non-virtual) computer, where it saves the current "state" i.e. open programs to disk, then powers down. VirtualBox keeps the saved state in another file separate from the virtual disk and virtual machine config files. ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
