http://www.mattlestock.com/2011/04/deleting-vmware-snapshots-is-slow/ Thoughts from your friendly neighborhood CTO. Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mattlestock.com/2011/04/deleting-vmware-snapshots-is-slow/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Q-tip Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:31:47 +0000 http://www.mattlestock.com/?p=160#comment-122 I use snapshots on Virtualbox similar to Steady State or Deep Freeze. I keep a Windows install on my Fedora laptop, which I use for school among other things, because, unfortunately, there are times where I need MS Office or VS.NET. Since I save all my work in a shared folder on the host, I don't need to worry with keeping changes made to the guest OS, so I don't. Once I got the guest set up, programs installed, CCleaned, and defragged, I created a snapshot. When I'm done working, I close VBox and tell it to restore the current snapshot. The guest OS essentially remains unchanged from boot to boot. I use snapshots on Virtualbox similar to Steady State or Deep Freeze. I keep a Windows install on my Fedora laptop, which I use for school among other things, because, unfortunately, there are times where I need MS Office or VS.NET. Since I save all my work in a shared folder on the host, I don’t need to worry with keeping changes made to the guest OS, so I don’t. Once I got the guest set up, programs installed, CCleaned, and defragged, I created a snapshot. When I’m done working, I close VBox and tell it to restore the current snapshot. The guest OS essentially remains unchanged from boot to boot.

]]> http://www.mattlestock.com/2011/04/deleting-vmware-snapshots-is-slow/comment-page-1/#comment-121 johndoe Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:15:45 +0000 http://www.mattlestock.com/?p=160#comment-121 nice write up. thx nice write up. thx

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