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Brad Thompson
Asked: 2021-06-19 08:25:37 +0800 CST

Oracle Virtualbox snapshots status

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for the folks familiar with VM (Oracle Virtualbox) I have a question. I tried to figure out why the status of the snapshot sometimes is green and sometimes is red, see caps below.

Thanks a lot!

Green here:

GREEN

and sometimes red:

RED

virtualbox

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If I understand things correctly, then:

    • green with play triangle play means snapshot taken for running machine (called "online");
    • red with stop square stop means snapshot taken for stopped machine (called "offline").

    I usually take snapshots of stopped machines to avoid possible problems.

    For details see: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.16/UserManual.pdf (ch. 1.10, 5.4, 8.6).

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