On 8 September 2010 09:01, Charles Stroom wrote:
> I have taken this remark and left the base vdi
> in ~/vbox, but removed a snapshot. As a result I have now 1 base vdi
> in ~/vbox and a {...........}.vdi file in
> ~/.VirtualBox/Machines/Win2K/Snapshots/.
> Fine.
>
> My understanding is the the base vdi does not change, but that changes
> are made to this differencing {...}.vdi. But the base vdi seems to be
> getting a now date info on the file every time I open the guest,
> although the size remains the same (as expected).
Does the Snapshots tab in the GUI show any snapshots, or is it just
that there is a {...........}.vdi file in ...Win2K/Snapshots/ ?
If the Snapshots tab does not show a snapshot, then there is no active
snapshot, the base VDI is being updated with changes (thus changed
timestamp) and the snapshot VDI file may an orphan. In the main UI,
Click File > Virtual Media Manager, and find your base VDI and expand
the tree under it. Do you see the same hex digits as the
...Win2K/Snapshots {}.vdi file? If not, it is an orphan. If it does
exist, click it and note the "Attached to:" at the bottom. It will say
"Not Attached" if it is an orphan and will say "<VMName>" WITHOUT a
snapshot name in brackets if you still have a snapshot.
Mark
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