VirtualBox

Opened 7 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#16612 new defect

Snapshots: Inheritance of options from parent snapshot should be improved (wishlist?)

Reported by: robert spitzenpfeil Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 5.1.18
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description

The situation:

1)

VM with immutable disk. Created a (visible) snapshot on top of that, set it to "autoreset OFF".

This works as expected. When the VM is restore to that snapshot, the snapshot file gets replaced with a new one, with "autoreset ON". OK, this is based on the invisible snapshot (to facilitate an immutable base image). I kinda understand the behaviour.

2) same as 1) but another snapshot layer.

  • base-image (immutable)
  • user-snapshot-1 (autoreset OFF)
  • user-snapshot-2 (autoreset OFF)

When restoring the current state to user-snapshot-2 I expect it to inherit (autoreset OFF) from its parent user-snapshot-1, but it doesn't! This irks me a lot.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by robert spitzenpfeil, 7 years ago

I forgot... this is on a Linux host (Leap 42.2, x86_64).

The priority of the bug should be downgraded too.

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