1-7snapshots and clones in VMWare

System state saving

In the process of using the operating system , Operate some document files , You can't avoid downloading some software , And make some system modifications . In some cases , There is a problem after the system has been used for a period of time , Unable to start the system again , To use the current system for corresponding operations

This is the time , We often install the system after , To avoid such a situation , You need to install some backup software , To back up the current system , When this happens to us , Return to normal , Thus protecting some of our files from being lost

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Snapshots in virtual machines

Among virtual machines , In addition to using the system's own 、 Some backups of the software , We can also use wmware workstation Some of these backup operations

stay wmware workstation With its own snapshot function , Save virtual machine state .

A snapshot is a time-based state preservation , And validate the snapshot , The contents of our previous node will be deleted , Return to the original state before , The original state of the moment we took a snapshot

Clones in virtual machines

Clones in virtual machines , You can also save the corresponding status , This clone is not primarily a state saving function , Instead, it quickly replicates multiple wmware workstation Virtual machine

Avoided , We have installed virtual machines many times , So that we can continuously copy and paste , Make our virtual machines more

The replica is independent of the original virtual machine , No, we have to run in the original virtual machine layer , It is an independent individual , thus , We got two virtual machines , It can run at the same time , Do different things

The difference between clone and snapshot

1、 Snapshots are operations on a single virtual machine

Set a point in time for the current state , such as 1 Time point No 、2 Time point No , Represent the virtual machine state at different times , We can restore snapshots , Restore to a different state , Switch between states , thus , It is also a single virtual machine operation

2、 Cloning is virtual machine replication

For example, link cloning , By linking to kali Virtual machine , When we can access kalilinux When

To some extent, both play a role vm Virtual machine state saving

Cloning is mainly used to operate multiple identical virtual machines at the same time