nospam312 wrote: > I have the following layout in VB > > - desc1 > - desc2 > - current state > > I have the following directory structure: > > c:\template\1.vdi (2.5GB) > c:\template\snapshots\2.vdi (1GB) > c:\tempates\snapshots\3.vdi (32K) > > I want to combine to a single VDI so I can clone the image. > > If I right click on current state and select Discard Current Snapshot > and State the machine churns away obviously merging something. The > Discard Current Snapshot and State is not an option anymore so I can't > select it again.
1) Why do you want to do Discard Current Snapshot and *State* if you want to preserve the current state? 2) What do you mean by "not an option"? It's always an option as long as you have at least one snapshot. > Is the merged.vdi saved somewhere and I need to include it in Disk > Manager and I can ignore 1.vdi, 2.vdi and 3.vdi? No, it's not necessary. As I said, all necessary hard disk manipulations are done implicitly. If I understand you correctly and you want to turn the VDI of the VM in its current state into a single VDI (that you are going to clone afterwards), and you want to preserve all changes and get rid of all snapshots, you simply need to: 1. Select snapshot "desc2" and do "Discard Snapshot" from the context menu. 2. Select snapshot "desc1" and do "Discard Snapshot" from the context menu. When these two steps are done, 1.vdi (if it's the base image) will contain all changes from 2.vdi and 3.vdi (which are differencing images). Both differencing images will be automatically deleted on success. If you are concerned about the merging details. Step 1 will merge 2.vdi to 3.vdi. Step 2 (deleting the first snapshot) will merge 3.vdi to 1.vdi and delete 3.vdi on success. Isn't it what you need? -- keep cool, Dmitry A. Kuminov _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
