Snapshot Simple Feature Request.

[toomanylogins]

I use snapshots for default configurations of guests testing software. Therefore I often make changes and need to roll back. It would be very useful if the current state of the guest ie "You are here" also included the date the guest was last shutdown or snapshot date if rolled back. At the moment there is no way of knowing if you have rolled back because there is no information to say that the current state of the guest equals a snapshot. So on rollback change the date of the "You are here" to equal that of the snapshot.

Thanks.

 

[fiona]

Hi,
you can check in the guest's Task History when the last rollback and shutdown was.

 

[toomanylogins]

Thanks thats handy to know. So if rollback is last task in list the vm is in that state.

 

[fiona]

So if rollback is last task in list the vm is in that state.

It might be a good enough heuristic depending on your use case, but it's not necessarily true: for example, many configuration updates do not involve a task, so you won't see all changes by looking at the task history. And if the snapshot includes RAM, then the VM will be immediately in a different state after restore, because it will be running