Will VB support snapshots or checkpoints?

[jiabaoyu]

Snapshots or checkpoints are pretty useful for testing those software BUG that happens in certain consistent system condition.
It's like a git for VMs which incrementally append the new data to the last checkpoint, so it is hard drive efficient .
When the generated data are considered useless or dirty, we just drop them and revert the VM status to the previous snapshot or checkpoint.

[insidegui]

There's no built-in support for it in Virtualization or VirtualBuddy, but if your library drive is using APFS, you can duplicate VM bundles and they won't occupy the full disk space (see readme). I do this all the time: duplicate a VM, do a bunch of tests, delete duplicated VM when done, or when something breaks.

[jiabaoyu]

Currently your suggestion is the way to mimic snapshots👍

[nbolton]

see readme

The readme for APFS?

[nbolton]

Wouldn't it be great if managing the disk copying via VirtualBuddy was a feature? Would save fiddling with bundle files.

[nbolton]

Never mind! Just spotted the duplicate option.