Is it possible to load vmware snapshot on vmware workstation player 12?

[Innocenzo]

same as the title

[a_p_]

I'm not sure whether I understand the question correctly.

Anyway, existing VMs with snapshots will work, but you cannot create, or delete snapshots.

André

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Of course I cannot create. I have a few snapshot in vmware folder, how do I load it?

let say I have 3 snapshots, and I wanna load OS1-Snapshot2.vmsn, how do I load those snapshot2 ? is there any way to choose which one to load?

thanks

[a_p_]

No, unfortunately not in VMware Player.

In order to load a VM from a specific snapshot in the chain, VMware Workstation Pro creates an additional snapshot to prevent the original snapshot .vmdk file from being modified, which would break the snapshot chain.

What you'd need to to, is to create/get an "empty" (metadata only) snapshot (e.g. from the Workstation on which the VM has originally been created), and chain it to the desired state/snapshot. then edit the VM's .vmx file (or create a copy) and change the virtual disk's name to the extra snapshot's .vmdk name.

André

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What you'd need to to, is to create/get an "empty" (metadata only) snapshot (e.g. from the Workstation on which the VM has originally been created), and chain it to the desired state/snapshot. then edit the VM's .vmx file (or create a copy) and change the virtual disk's name to the extra snapshot's .vmdk name.

I don't much understand about this, could you please elaborate?