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hello,
I have created a virtualbox machine ( running win7 ) and I want to make it so that when I close the machine ( I click on the start button and choose shutdown ) no changes I made during the time I am running the virtual machine are saved. So anything I've saved to the virtual hard drive - any software that is installed - NOTHING is saved.
Is this possible?

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Andrew Wright

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JeffBeall

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ok, so when I right click on the virtual machine, I don't see snapshot, but there is a clone option. So is the clone machine thing like a snapshot?

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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JeffBeall

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also, would there be an automated way to revert to the snapshot? My goal is to have the user start the virtual machine, do what they need to do. Then shutdown the machine, and next time they need to run the machine, it is reverted back to the clone, so no changes are kept. But for the user, I want, preferably, just one thing for them to click on to start the machine. The user is not very computer literate, so I'm trying to make things as seamless as possible.

JeffBeall

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ok, I'll try vmplayer

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Virtualbox - Not without scripting, follow the article, and use VMware Player, it's automated.

Turn of VM, it's reset automatically.

JeffBeall

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thank you - with vmware I added scsi0:0.mode = "independent-nonpersistent" and it is working exactly how I want it to.