On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
Does anyone know the reason why you cannot snapshot powered off machines?
Hum, only the obvious answer pops to mind: because there is no state to snapshot at all! A powered-off machine has no state, besides the contents of the harddrive (vmware: the disk image) and of the NVRAM (vmware: stored in some file, together with the vmware config). So, if you backed up the virtual machine directory (containing the disk image, config and NVRAM), I guess you are all set. Nothing else exists in a real physical computer anyway...
Cheers, Rodrigo Ventura Institute for Systems and Robotics (www.isr.ist.utl.pt) Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon, Portugal
