Is there a way to exclude a specific drive vdi from "snapshots" in VirtualBox?

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...or is there another space-efficient way of dealing with the page/swap file of the Guest O/S? I've realised that its quite possible/likely that one of the things which "bloats" the snapshot/diff vdi's when a snapshot is taken is the guest operating system's pagefile. For example, say I have a 2Gb…

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You could delete the swap on shutdown of the guest windows - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314834

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Is there a way to exclude a specific drive vdi from "snapshots" in VirtualBox?

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