Re:Improved snapshots? (Score 1)

VirtualBox snapshots seem to work by redirecting new information to the snapshot file, leaving the original disk image file in the state it was in before the snapshot as taken. I found this out when I copied a .VDI file to a different host and created a machine for it. It worked fine, but had none of the updates I had done since the first snapshot was taken. This probably explains why you can't jump to a random snapshot in a series and still retain later ones. Re-using an earlier one and modifying its disk image would invalidate all later snapshots because they are layered over the original disk image and over each other.