Excerpts from Rance Hall's message of Thu Mar 10 09:48:13 -0500 2011: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Leonardo Carneiro > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Since domain membership is part of windows networking, which would be > >> > INSIDE your windows guest, then no. > >> Yeah. I kind of thought so. What about Snapshots? Could I take a > >> snapshot after joining each domain and revert back to it when needed? Or > >> am I not understanding how snapshots work? > >> > > You could use snapshots in this way, but that would be a pain I think. > > What I traditionally use snapshots for is a quick uninstall. Take a > snapshot before upgrading something, and if it breaks I restore from > snapshot. > > You can set up a snapshot without a domain membership. Then join one. > take new snapshot. > restore to virgin, join domain 2, take snapshot (repeat as needed) > > Problem if you update, upgrade any software, you have to do it on all > your domain member snapshots. Hadn't thought of that. You're right, painful. > > I still think writing the script, while harder in the beginning, would > be much easier to maintain in the long-term Perhaps. In maintaining multiple vdi's for this purpose -I'll need to maintain multiple others for various other reasons as well- I'll likely run our of disk space and have to run the guests from external drives. I would assume this serious degrade performance. -- Thanks, Phil
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