[SOLVED] Difference between current state and snapshot in virtualbox
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What searches did you do before posting that didn't give you the answer?
Or, put another way, putting your thread title into a search engine links to the official virtualbox documentation for snapshots which explains both what "current state" is and how snapshots work.
So if I do a mistake in the current state, do I delete the current state? Current state of your VM is a variation based on the snapshot you took earlier.
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Hey linux-man,
I don't use snapshots in Virtualbox. However, intuitively, I believe "current state" refers to the most recent "state" of your VM ... i.e. - the one you are currently using. My understanding of the snapshot feature is that, to do what you want to do (return to the initial post-installation of your Linux VM), you would have had to "take a snapshot" at that time.
My god. Yes. The poster does not need that.
I use a lot of VMs and I have never made snapshots. Sometimes recreating the VM is much faster and there is no need to handle different kind of backups. Do not store valuable information inside the VM.
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