Exporting a box with snapshots

[nick....@onyxpoint.com]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if its possible to export a vagrant box containing snapshots that I took using `vagrant snapshot`?

I have tried just packaging a box with several snapshots and they are all discarded upon packaging.

Thanks,
Nick

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello,

What command did you use?

I run a test, and I can see the snaps are still there.

I did export using pure Virtualbox, and then using Vagrant:

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mini:~ kikitux$ vagrant package --base ub --output ub.box

==> ub: Exporting VM...

==> ub: Compressing package to: /Users/kikitux/ub.box

mini:~ kikitux$ ls -al ub.box Documents/ub.ova 

-rw-------  1 kikitux  staff    81K 17 Mar 11:18 Documents/ub.ova

-rw-r--r--  1 kikitux  staff   3.7K 17 Mar 11:20 ub.box

mini:~ kikitux$ 

mini:~ kikitux$ mkdir t

mini:~ kikitux$ cd t

mini:t kikitux$ tar zxvf ../ub.box 

x ./box-disk1.vmdk

x ./box.ovf

x ./Vagrantfile

mini:t kikitux$ ls -al

total 176

drwxr-xr-x   5 kikitux  staff   170B 17 Mar 11:22 ./

drwxr-xr-x+ 71 kikitux  staff   2.4K 17 Mar 11:22 ../

-rw-r--r--   1 kikitux  staff   505B 17 Mar 11:20 Vagrantfile

-rw-------   1 kikitux  staff    67K 17 Mar 11:20 box-disk1.vmdk

-rw-------   1 kikitux  staff    12K 17 Mar 11:20 box.ovf

mini:t kikitux$ 

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[Nick Miller]

Using the following workflow, I was not able to export a box with snapshots.

$ vagrant up # box I want to save

$ vagrant snapshot save one

$ vagrant ssh # made some changes

$ vagrant snapshot save two

$ vagrant package --base 'vm name' --output snapshottest.box

# moved the box to a new directory

$ vagrant init snapshottest.box

$ vagrant up

$ vagrant snapshot list
==> default: No snapshots have been taken yet!
    default: You can take a snapshot using `vagrant snapshot save`. Note that
    default: not all providers support this yet. Once a snapshot is taken, you
    default: can list them using this command, and use commands such as
    default: `vagrant snapshot restore` to go back to a certain snapshot.

I would like to continue to use vagrant up because I'd still like other features of vagrant, like shared folders.

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello,

It seems the box was exported, and you were able to import it.

So, the expectation here is that the snapshots are going to be included in the exported box?

Vagrant uses standard features from Virtualbox, if they only export by default a copy of the running machine, then I am not sure how Vagrant can help.

Can you please explain a bit more?

Thanks

Alvaro.

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[Nick Miller]

Nope, I expected to be able to export VMs including snapshots. You are correct that you are not able to do that because it isn't a feature VirtualBox supports. Thanks for you help anyway!

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