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Chapter 9 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine
Restore an Earlier State from a Snapshot
RestoreasnapshotinWorkstationbyusingtheRevertandGotocommands.
TheRevertcommandhasthesameeffectasusingtheGotocommandandselecting
theparentsnapshotofthevirtualmachine.Itrevertstotheparentsnapshotofthe
currentstate.ThisstatecorrespondstotheYouAreHe
repositioninthesnapsh
ot
manager.See“SnapshotRelationships”onpage 204.
TheGotocommandisnotlimitedtotheparentsnapshotofthecurrentstate.Youcan
chooseanyexistingsnapshotofthevirtualmachine.
To restore an earlier state from a snapshot
Dooneofthefollowing:
Toreverttotheparentsnapshot,chooseVM>Snapshot>ReverttoSnapshot.
Toreverttoasnapshotthatisnottheparent,chooseVM>Snapshotandselectthe
snapshotname.
Tosetthevirtualmachinetoreverttotheparentsnapshoteverytimethevirtual
machineispoweredoff,see“RevertatPowerOff”onpage 211.
Revert at Power Off
Youcansetthevirtualmachinetoreverttotheparentsnapshotanytimeitispowered
off.Theparentsnapshotofavirtualmachineisthesnapshotonwhichthecurrentstate
(theYouAreHereposition)isbased.
To set a virtual machine to revert to a snapshot at power off
1 Selectthevirtualmachine.
2 ChooseVM>Settings.
CAUTIONIfyouaddanindependentdisktoavirtualmachineandtakeasnapshot,
revertingtothesnapshotwillnotaffectthestateoftheindependentdisk.
Butifyoutakeasnapshotofavirtualmachineandthenaddanykindofdisk,reverting
tothesnapshotwillremovethedis
kfromthevirt
ualmachine.Ifassociateddisk
(.vmdk)filesarenotusedbyanothersnapshot,thediskfilesaredeleted.
NOTEThelistofsnapshotsinVM>SnapshotdoesnotshowanAutoProtect
snapshotuntilyourestorethatsnapshotinthesnapshotmanager.Usethe
snapshotmanager(VM>Snapshot>SnapshotManager)todisplayandrestore
AutoProtectsnapshots.
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