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Using Snapshots
Using Snapshots
VMware Workstation snapshots allow you to preserve the state of the virtual machine so you can return to the same state repeatedly. Version 5 introduces multiple snapshots and the Snapshot Manager.
This section discusses snapshots in the following topics:
Understanding Snapshots
Snapshots are useful when you need to revert repeatedly to the same state, but you don't want to create multiple virtual machines. With snapshots you create backup and restore positions in a linear process. You can also preserve a baseline before diverging a virtual machine in a process tree.
Multiple snapshots are not simply a new way of saving your VMs. With multiple snapshots, you can save many positions to accommodate many kinds of work processes.