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  • 1.  what is use of snapshot?

    Posted Feb 18, 2011 06:13 AM

    i had a  virtual machine with 1 snapshot and i want to make the same copy of  VM one  more using snapshot. is it possible

    comp-1  Windows 2003 machine with snapshot

    comp-2 Plain windows 2003 machine  ( i copied the snapshot file from comp-1 to comp-2 ) for getting the same environment



  • 2.  RE: what is use of snapshot?

    Posted Feb 18, 2011 06:19 AM

    if you are looking to make another copy of VM in a perticular snapshot state. follow the below steps

    Go to snapshot state and clone the VM in that perticular state, the clone VM will be in the same state of snapshot

    Thanks

    Nithin



  • 3.  RE: what is use of snapshot?

    Posted Feb 18, 2011 06:33 AM

    the same procedure we can do in command prompt also for copying the vm using

    cp -arp <Source Folder>  <destionation folder>

    my question is 1 lost the  all the file in Comp-1  vm except snapshot file, in that case can i recover my environment ?



  • 4.  RE: what is use of snapshot?
    Best Answer

    Posted Feb 18, 2011 06:37 AM

    Delta files have only the current state...

    Without the base file you cannot make something useful.

    Andre



  • 5.  RE: what is use of snapshot?

    Posted Feb 18, 2011 06:45 AM

    Without the source disk, VMware Tech also cannot help you.



  • 6.  RE: what is use of snapshot?

    Posted Feb 18, 2011 06:26 AM

    Another solution is use the vmkfstools command:

    http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1028042