Re: [VBox-users] Avantquest sell Virtualbox for £30 - is that allowed?

2013-04-06 Thread vbox-users
From: Chris Green [mailto:c...@isbd.net] Here's the website:- http://www.avanquest.com/UK/pc-utilities/virtualisation/ Wow. Sun branded, before Oracle acquired Sun in 2008-2010ish, supports up to vista, solaris 10, and opensolaris b81, fedora core 4 to 8 ... StarOffice? Seriously?

Re: [VBox-users] Consistent vdi image during guest runtime?

2013-04-06 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:08:45 -0700 Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: On 13-04-05 07:02 AM, vbox-users wrote: From: Stephan von Krawczynski [mailto:sk...@ithnet.com] I use zfs (or btrfs) storage, which handles the storage snapshots. If I ever need to rollback to a point in time

Re: [VBox-users] Consistent vdi image during guest runtime?

2013-04-06 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-04-06 08:36 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: Hi all, I feel a need to be more precise on the true nature of the question. My intention is not only to have a consistent vdi image, but also to have a consistent backup of the virtual guest. I talked to a friend using VM*are and how he

Re: [VBox-users] Consistent vdi image during guest runtime?

2013-04-06 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-04-06 10:50 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote: On 13-04-06 08:36 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: Hi all, I feel a need to be more precise on the true nature of the question. My intention is not only to have a consistent vdi image, but also to have a consistent backup of the virtual guest. I

Re: [VBox-users] Consistent vdi image during guest runtime?

2013-04-06 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:50:13 -0700 Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: I would say that the vbox snapshots are not the path you want to take for backups. VBox snapshots are great when experimenting with software, or creating a library using a base images. If you do a VBox snapshot

Re: [VBox-users] Consistent vdi image during guest runtime?

2013-04-06 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-04-06 01:46 PM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:50:13 -0700 Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: I would say that the vbox snapshots are not the path you want to take for backups. VBox snapshots are great when experimenting with software, or creating a library