Snapshots are a really useful feature of VM's, for me they are like a super restore point. They take your VM back to the exact way it was at the time of the snapshot. Recently I found this useful for downloading an update for a product that I use, it required me to install a stupid update manager to download the .exe file to update some software on my bosses Win7 host machine.
So rather then clutter the host machine I simply installed the update manager on a VM after taking a snapshot, downloaded the .exe file from the vendor and then restored the snapshot and un-ticking the option to take a snapshot of the current state. Since I had the .exe file that I wanted I installed it and went on with life without the update manager trying to clutter up the background processes of either the host or the VM.
There are some slightly more dodgy uses for the snapshot feature, I'm sure you can figure them out for yourselves.
No comments:
Post a Comment