how not to save changes on exit in vmware?

skanky · 30 Jul 2007 at 21:08

little help here, in virtual pc when i shutdown the vpc i get an option to either save or discard changes to the disk, which is good.

however in vmware the only thing i can find is making the hdd either persistent or not but crucially i cant change that setting when the vm is active. :/

is there something obvious i'm missing in vmware to do this?

m4cc45 · 30 Jul 2007 at 21:51

The way I see VMWare is that when you make changes they're saved immediately.

If you want to load an image and make changes without anything saved then you can use VMWare Player.

I don't think there's anything inbetween....

M0KUJ1N · 30 Jul 2007 at 21:56

If you're using VMware workstation use the snapshot facility to do this. Once you have it setup as you like take a snapshot and you will then be able to revert to this snapshot undoing any changes you've made.

skanky · 31 Jul 2007 at 09:02

yes im using workstation and ah yes, snapshots, thanks. seems to do exactly what i needed.