Windows 10: How to Take, Restore and Use Snapshots in VirtualBox

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VirtualBox Snapshots is a tool for capturing incremental snapshots of the virtual machine (VM) state. It enables us to restore our VM to a specific condition. In this post, we will learn how to create and use Snapshots in VirtualBox. You can use snapshots to save a particular state of a virtual machine. This is helpful […]

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Hello,

The system finds VirtualBox and suggests to uninstall it manually, to run the update, but I am unable to find any app/program containing it. It's not shown in the Uninstall or Change the Program list. I do not have any Oracle installed on my PC either.

Kind regards,

TK

 

Persistent VSS snapshot gets removed from restored VM

Persistent VSS snapshot is getting removed for some volumes on my VM on VMWare, below are the steps I used to do this

1] Take persistent VSS snapshot of SQL using SQl writer

2] Take VM snapshot and backup with one of the backup agents

3] Restore the same snapshot of VM

When I power on the restored VM the persistent VSS snapshot I took before backup gets removed for one of the volumes for others it is still there as expected.

I have faced this issue very rarely, I use this method to take backups regularly but it has failed with this error only 3 times out of 1000.

Earlier I thought this was due to system drive but it has happened on other drives as well.

 

virtualbox/xpmode - snapshots as activation workaround ?


First of all, I apologize for the multiple postings - I don't get to spend as much time learning this new stuff as I would like.

Since I cannot "activate" my working XPmode, is the VirtualBox snapshot function a solid workaround ? Just create a snapshot NOW, and every few weeks restore it so that my XPmode doesn't fizzle due to lack of activation ?

OR is this a no-go because somehow the system date still manages to kill it ? If this is the case, where does the date of installation of XPmode reside ?

OR do I just let XPmode fizzle and then re-install

OR do i just set back my system date every so often ? Sounds dumb, but I really don't care what my computer "thinks" the correct date is --- I am just grateful for each morning that I don't wake up dead.

OR does someone have a solid workaround ?