[vbox-users] discarding_snapshots

2010-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
After reading a number of articles via google-ization I remain confused about discarding virtualbox snapshots in order to merge them all together Should one work discarding from the top-down ( oldest-to-youngest ) or discarding from bottom-up ( youngest-to-oldest ) ? -- Stanley

Re: [vbox-users] discarding_snapshots

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Cranness
Cousin Stanley wrote: > After reading a number of articles via google-ization > I remain confused about discarding virtualbox snapshots > in order to merge them all together > > Should one work discarding from the top-down ( oldest-to-youngest ) > or discarding from bottom-up ( young

Re: [vbox-users] discarding_snapshots

2010-03-08 Thread Cousin Stanley
>> >> >> Should one work discarding from the top-down ( oldest-to-youngest ) >> or discarding from bottom-up ( youngest-to-oldest ) ? > 1) In terms of the final result / state of the base virtual hard disk, >it doesn't matter. > > 2) In terms of how long it takes to process the