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rich_becks
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Pre-requisites for snapshot functionality? (snapshotting is disabled)

I have two Virtual machines, one is a Gentoo Linux image and the other is a Windows XP image.

The Gentoo Linux image has snapshot capability enabled, but the Windows XP image has the snapshot icons "greyed" out. I have the latest VMware tools installed on the XP image.

Does the image need some specific settings to enable snapshotting, or is this a bug?

Oh this is beta2 (41385) BTW (in case you hadn't worked this out).

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rcardona2k
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Rich,

I had this problem as well with Windows XP. What I found is that my manually created disk had an entry for independent-persistent mode. I had to comment out this line in the VM's vmx config file to gain snapshot capability.

#scsi0:0.mode = "independent-persistent"

(revised for accuracy)

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rich_becks
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Well your suggestion, at least made me go have a delve through my rather sprawling .vmx file which has gone through workstation and server before ending up in fusion.

And sheepishly I have to admit I found this line about 3/4r's of the way through.

snapshot.disabled = "TRUE"

That'll be the reason then Smiley Wink

Thanks!

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rcardona2k
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Doh! Given that you and I disabled snapshot capability differently this will be the place to check for the possible ways to end-up with disabled snapshots.

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