Holger Ernst wrote:
> first of all I want to express my oppinion that VirtualBox seems to be a
> fine piece of software with a great potential.
ACK.
> But I am missing something essential: It seems to be impossible to clone
> a snapshot! So there is no way to fork developments and no easy way to
> copy/distribute some work.
I'm searching this feature also at the moment ;-)
> It is not that it is impossible, the virtual machine does it (it
> overlays the original vdi with the snapshot vdi). I is only so that
> VBoxManage can not do it (yet). It says:{Cloning differencing VDI images
> is not yet supported...
It tried also to clone a differencing image via VBoxManage. Here the linux
box says:
[!] Text = {Hard disk
image
'/home/windoof/virtualbox/winxp/Snapshots/{183f539d-9be0-4db2-ba8f-8a9ba05a00cf}.vdi'
is a differencing image and cannot be opened directly}
> Can something be said if and when this feature will be implemented?
This would be interesting for me too.
Regards
Thomas
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