Snapshot and clone of vmware6.0

Vmware6.0's snapshot and clone-general Linux technology-Linux technology and application information. The following is a detailed description. Since I failed to start my fedora8 with lvm software and re-installed it, it took me one night to update yum, And I still used the fastest-mirror plug-in, so I paid special attention to the use of snapshot and learned about snapshot and clone:

1. snapshot: Takes a snapshot of the current guestos status, which is very fast. We recommend that you create a snapshot before installing some large software and provide the appropriate name and description, I believe it will free you from a lot of troubles. In the future, in addition to problems, guestos will find your snapshots on the snapshot tree managed by its snapshot manage, and click goto to get them together. It is particularly worth mentioning that the 6.0 vmware workstation I use supports managing multiple snapshots, which is really good.

2. clone: there are two types:
Full clone: it is a complete clone of your current guestos, which is useful for migration.

Linked clone: This type of Link clone is based on the snapshot method. The general purpose is to install multiple guestos with the same operating system on the same machine for different users, to save the hard disk space of the host, use the link clone function. After the operating system is basically installed, create a snapshot and then perform several lined clone tasks for several guestos respectively, in this way, the new cloned guestos and the original guestos do not affect each other and greatly save the hard disk space.