Silly snapshot question.....

[kevin_cambs_uk]

I understand how it all works but I am having trouble with the Revert to or Go to Option. My scenario is this....

I have my VM, all running nicely from the base discs from when it was created. So when I go to the Snapshot Manager it is empty.

My VM is powered off, and I create a snapshot. I make all the changes to this VM etc., but I decide that I want to go back to prior to when to when I created this one snapshot, and back to the base disc and discard the changes, so I am exactly where I started.

So I have shutdown the VM, selected Revert to current Snapshot and discard the changes, and when I restart the VM its back to where I want it to be. This is all how I want it, however...

When I look in the Snapshot Manager the snapshot I created is still there, even though I reverted...I cant seem to find any explanation why it would be there. If I delete it does that mean it will put all the changes in the snapshot back into the base files? I don't want it there you see...Or am I missing something fundamental here?, I don't want snapshots unless needed and want it all to run of the base discs...

Any help would be most welcome....

Kev

[cjscol]

This is how it works. When you revert to a snapshot the snapshot still stays there so that you can make more changes and then revert back again if needed.

If you no longer want the snapshot after you have reverted to it you can delete the snapshot so that the changes since the snapshot was taken are put back in the base virtual disk files(s).

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Thanks for the reply!

OIC so effectively, when I revert the snapshot, it basically just gets emptied? and then as long as there are no more changes between when I revert to when I delete it, there will be no changes committed back...

[cjscol]

Correct.

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Thank you so much , no matter how much I searched the internet I never found he answer!. Thank you!