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Virtualbox, merging snapshots and base disk

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Problem

I have a virtual machine with about 30 snapshots in branches. The current development path is 22 snapshots plus the base disk. The amount of files is seemingly having an impact now on IO and the dev laptop I'm using (don't know if it is host disk performance issues with the 140GB total size over a …

Error Output

vboxmanage clonehd "C:\VPC-Storage\.VirtualBox\Machines\CRM\Snapshots\{245b27ac-e658-470a-b978-8e62137c33b1}.vhd" "E:\crm-20100624.vhd" --format VHD …

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Fix for: Virtualbox, merging snapshots and base disk

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What you want to do is from the snapshots dialog, select your parent snapshot that you want to merge all snapshots afterwards to a single VDI. From your description it sounds like this is the root of the tree. Right click and select 'Delete Snapshot…

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