> -----Original Message----- > From: jdd [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 4:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VBox-users] removing redundant snapshots > > this problem is pretty complex. I'm not sure of what is done. > > first in stack langage, top is often understood as more "recent" (like > a stack of dishes). > > In the VirtualBox GUI, the snapshots are listed top to botom, the > bottom one being the more recent. > > Then snapshots are complex beasts. > > If you think snapshot like file system ones (btrfs...) any snapshot > have only one father and one son (probably, I'm not BTRFS specialist), > but in VirtualBox any snapshot can live it's own life. > > You can have a common initial snapshot (base) and them build a system > (I use it for games) say with Warcraft. > > You can then make a snapshot of the warcraft install, then run the base > sbapshot and install Doom. > > so you end with a tree with several branches. > > I'm pretty sure it's not possible at all to merge all these branches > safely. > > I wonder then what mean "delete" > > (restore runs the snapshot as "present state") > > notice that the link > > https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=29269 > > says that it's not possible to branch snapshot what is obviously wrong. > I did and it works. May be a too old page? > > jdd
Hi, jdd. Yes, I agree 100% that the problem is a lot more complicated than my initial question and idea conveyed. I had not looked at the manual well enough before asking it. My bad! I can see now that my initial question was relevant, but it was based on the simplest case scenario too. I have completed a first perusing of the manual concerning this subject, and I am finding a lot of interesting material. I have to digest some of it and practice some of its related procedures before I can make further assessments. Catch you later. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
