Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

Creating a virtual machine snapshot with VirtualBox

One of the beautiful things about working with virtual machines is that you can create a snapshot and roll back to it if you mess something up. With VirtualBox, that's easy to do, by following these steps:

1. At the top right-hand corner of the VirtualBox Manager screen, click the Snapshots button.

2. Further left on the screen, click on the Take icon to bring up the snapshot dialog box. Either fill in the desired Snapshot Name or accept the default name. Optionally, you can create a description, as shown in the following screenshot:

3. After you've made changes to the virtual machine, you can ...