I tried to make a clone of my virtual machine so that I could simplify my VM VirtualBox Manager display. I don’t think I need t always see my 20 snaps shots. I am running Home Assistant OS 11.2 Core on a Linux Guest System on a Mac OS host. When I start the system it bring uo the EFI interactive Shell. I do have EFI selected in VM settings.
I will admit I am not quite sure what I am doing. I sort of thought creat a clone and away you go, Knew that had to be too simple
I haven’t done this for ages, but these are the notes I kept when I last cloned:
When cloning the VM, tick both checkboxes, and pick “all” for mac addresses. When you start the VM it will give errors. This is the way to fix it:
1 Type “exit” at the shell prompt
2 Select “Boot Maintenance Manager” > “Boot Options” > “Change Boot Order”
3 Hit Enter to select the list to change it, and move "UEFI VBOX HARDDISK" to top of list with "+"
4 Press F10 to save the config - press Y to confirm to save
5 Press ESC until you’re out at the top level menu
6 Select Continue - and it should boot.
Good luck!
Just adding that snapshots should only be used temporarily for few days and in a hierarchy as small as possible.
How do I remove the snapshots??
Perfect!!!
well sort of… This works to start the clone. but I must repeat the process every time I start the clone . That won’t work for auto start But great information
Simply delete all snapshots through VitualBox.
another duhh. was right in front of me Appreciate