Wednesday, November 25, 2009

I can clone your VDI

Virtual box is a nice alternative to VMWare Workstation but it lack in the ability to run a guest dynamically along the snapshot tree.

To address this you can clone an existing snapshot using the VBoxManage command line utility.
VBoxManage clonehd 74d29520-da20-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66 Cloned.vdi
The guid is filename of the snapshot vdi with the curly brackets and the file extension removed.

Now all you need to do is create a new VM using the cloned drive.