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When does a VirtualBox snapshot actually happen

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Mar 15, 2026462 views
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I spend a lot of my job writing documentation for the installation of software on my employer's servers. Sometimes this is quite complicated, so I do the initial work inside a virtual machine running in VirtualBox, and take snapshots at each successful milestone. Depending on what my machine is up …

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No, you don't have to wait until a snapshot has created completely. The VirtualBox documentation sheds some light on the technology behind snapshots: When a snapshot is taken, VirtualBox "freezes" the [virtual disk - I.K.] image file and no longer w…

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