Hard Disk Independent Nonpersistent

[GarthDK]

I am trying to figure out exactly what this means. To start with, the description of Indepedent states: Independent disks are not affected by snapshots. However, the Nonpersistent description under Independent states: Changes to this disk are discarded when you power off or revert to the snapshot. The use of "snapshot" seems to disagree with the description of Independent. What I really want is to define a VM that reverts back to a known state whenever it is rebooted, not just when it is powered off. Known State could be back to whatever it was the last time it was rebooted or to the last snapshot. I can live with either one. Does Independent with Nonpersistent do it for me?

Thanx,

Garth

[continuum]

Nope - if you use "nonpersistent" flag on a disk a REDO-log is created that stores all the changes. next time you power off the VM this REDO-log will be deleted.

This will not happen on a simple reboot

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