So I finished the minimal VM and made a clone of it, and then started that clone and proceeded to refine it for production purposes. Here, again, I did not want to have a string of two dozen snapshots to go digging back through I wanted the simplicity and clarity of an entirely separate parent VM to dust off and re-clone, if that need arose. I would probably want to make another clone at that point, again for the purpose of saving the finished working VM, in case daily use of the production clone caused it to become unstable at some point. Once I had that backup, I could go ahead and tinker with the working clone, eventually arriving at a finished VM that I could use for daily productivity. That way, the minimal VM would be preserved in a separate state, where it would not be at risk of contamination or corruption from mistakes I might make while creating, altering, and deleting snapshots of my latest experiments. Once I had finished the minimal VM, it made sense to clone it.
(Note: this post has been updated somewhat from its original version.) The next step would be to configure a more fully developed Win7 VM for daily use, as detailed in that other post. It was possible that this minimal Win7 圆4 VM would only serve as a backup in case something went wrong in the next phase. I was not sure, at this point, whether I actually had any 64-bit programs that I would want to virtualize.
#Virtualbox windows 7 portable
I believed this minimal Win7 圆4 VM would be good for virtualizing (i.e., making portable versions of) 64-bit programs that I would not be able to virtualize on the barebones 32-bit Windows XP VM that I had been using for virtualization.
#Virtualbox windows 7 software
I had completed the first phase in this project: setting up a minimal machine with no antivirus software installed and no working Internet connection. vbox FileĪs described in another post, I was developing a Windows 7 64-bit virtual machine (VM) in VirtualBox. Solution 3: After Making the Clone: Edit the. Solution 2: After Installing Windows but Before Cloning: Edit the. Solution 1: Before Installing Windows: Configure the Original VM
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