vagrant-vbox-snapshot

Vagrant plugin that exposes the VBoxManage snapshot command.

Install

Ensure you have Vagrant 1.1+ installed, then run:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbox-snapshot

Usage

The following commands are added by this plugin:

 vagrant snap back                   # back to current snapshot
 vagrant snap delete SNAP_NAME       # delete snapshot
 vagrant snap go SNAP_NAME           # go to specified snapshot
 vagrant snap help [COMMAND]         # Describe subcommands or one specific subcommand
 vagrant snap list                   # list snapshot
 vagrant snap take [NAME]            # take snapshot

Other solutions

There have been a number of similar plugins, but none worked for Vagrant 1.1:

• vagrant-snap
  • originally published as a gist: https://gist.github.com/t9md/1008031
  • fork of above gist, with Vagrant 1.0.6 compatibility: https://gist.github.com/tombh/5142237
  • source
  • primary inspiration for vagrant-vbox-snapshot
• sahara
  • fork exists with 1.1 functionality: https://github.com/ryuzee/sahara

Development

See DEVNOTES.md for the notes I compiled while developing this plugin.