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| 4 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="snapshots">
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| 5 | <title>Snapshots</title>
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <body>
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| 8 | <p>With snapshots, you can save a particular state of a virtual machine for later use. At any later time,
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| 9 | you can revert to that state, even though you may have changed the VM considerably since then. A snapshot of a
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| 10 | virtual machine is thus similar to a machine in Saved state, but there can be many of them, and these saved states
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| 11 | are preserved. </p>
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| 12 | <p> To see the snapshots of a virtual machine, click the machine name in <ph
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| 13 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>. In the machine tools menu for the VM, click <b outputclass="bold"
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| 14 | >Snapshots</b>. The Snapshots tool is displayed. </p>
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| 15 | <fig id="fig-snapshots-tool">
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| 16 | <title>Snapshots Tool, Showing Snapshot Properties</title>
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| 17 | <xref href="images/snapshots-1.png" format="png" platform="htmlhelp">
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| 18 | <image href="images/snapshots-1.png" width="10cm" placement="break">
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| 19 | <alt>Snapshots Tool, Showing Snapshot Properties</alt>
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| 20 | </image>
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| 21 | </xref>
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| 22 | <image platform="ohc" href="images/snapshots-1.png" width="10cm" placement="break">
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| 23 | <alt>Snapshots Tool, Showing Snapshot Properties</alt>
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| 24 | </image>
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| 25 | </fig>
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| 26 | <p>If you select multiple VMs in the machine list, all snapshots are listed for each VM. </p>
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| 27 | <p>Until you take a snapshot of the virtual machine, the list of snapshots will be empty, except for the
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| 28 | <b outputclass="bold">Current State</b> item. This item represents the current point in the lifetime of the
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| 29 | virtual machine. </p>
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| 30 | <p>The Snapshots window includes a toolbar, enabling you to perform the following snapshot operations: </p>
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| 31 | <ul>
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| 32 | <li>
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| 33 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Take.</b> Takes a snapshot of the selected VM. See <xref
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| 34 | href="snapshots-take-restore-delete.dita#snapshots-take-restore-delete"/>. </p>
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| 35 | </li>
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| 36 | <li>
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| 37 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Delete.</b> Removes a snapshot from the list of snapshots. See <xref
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| 38 | href="snapshots-take-restore-delete.dita#snapshots-take-restore-delete"/>. </p>
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| 39 | </li>
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| 40 | <li>
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| 41 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Restore.</b> Restores the VM state to be the same as the selected
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| 42 | snapshot. See <xref href="snapshots-take-restore-delete.dita#snapshots-take-restore-delete"/>. </p>
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| 43 | </li>
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| 44 | <li>
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| 45 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Properties.</b> Displays the properties for the selected snapshot. The <b
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| 46 | outputclass="bold">Attributes</b> tab is used to specify a Name and Description for the snapshot. The <b
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| 47 | outputclass="bold">Information</b> tab shows VM settings for the snapshot. </p>
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| 48 | </li>
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| 49 | <li>
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| 50 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Clone.</b> Displays the <b outputclass="bold">Clone Virtual Machine</b>
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| 51 | wizard. This enables you to create a clone of the VM, based on the selected snapshot. </p>
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| 52 | </li>
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| 53 | <li>
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| 54 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Settings.</b> Available for the Current State snapshot only. Displays the
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| 55 | <b outputclass="bold">Settings</b> window for the VM, enabling you to make configuration changes. </p>
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| 56 | </li>
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| 57 | <li>
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| 58 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Discard.</b> For a running VM, discards the saved state for the VM and
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| 59 | closes it down. </p>
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| 60 | </li>
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| 61 | <li>
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| 62 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Start.</b> Start the VM. This operation is available for the <b
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| 63 | outputclass="bold">Current State</b> item. </p>
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| 64 | </li>
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| 65 | </ul>
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| 66 | </body>
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| 67 |
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| 68 |
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| 69 | </topic>
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