POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : VMware : Re: VMware Server Time
4 Sep 2024 23:18:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: VMware  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 22 Dec 2009 23:59:43
Message: <4b31a3bf@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
>> - I like the "snapshot manager" thingy. That's really nice.
> 
> So what's the best practice with snapshots?
> 
> If you want to test several things, is it better to take several
> snapshots, or to clone the VM into several seperate VMs?
> 
> I notice that you can't run several snapshots of the same VM at once,
> whereas if they were seperate VMs you could. And also you can only
> reclaim freespace for a VM with no snapshots.
> 
> On the other hand, you'll never have a VM with *no* snapshots at all,
> because then it would be impossible to go back in time...

I personally take snapshots as often as I commit on a version control 
system.


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