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My first idea was to simply {{clonevm}} the VM, but you cannot clone a running VM, so you would first have to stop the VM in order to clone it, not what we want.\\
It appears that you can make a snapshot while the machine is running and {{clonevm}} that snapshot. So:\\
%%(background-color : #d3ee03 ) VBoxManage snapshot Ubuntu2 take snapshot1 %% \\
%%warning But here we run into a serious [VirtualBox bug|https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9255], and the running VM is now in a state {{ GURU MEDITATION }} %%
But an easy workaround is to use the (not explained) --pause parameter:\\
So after powering down the VM %%(background-color : #d3ee03 )( VBoxManage controlvm Ubuntu2 poweroff %% ), and starting it again, we : \\
%%(background-color : #d3ee03 ) VBoxManage snapshot Ubuntu2 take snapshot1 --pause %% \\
%%small
{{{
metskem@gneisenau ~ $ VBoxManage snapshot Ubuntu2 take snapshot1 --pause
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
}}}
%%
And you can see when you list the %%(background-color : #d3ee03 ) VM VBoxManage list --long runningvms %% :
%%small
{{{
metskem@gneisenau ~ $ VBoxManage list --long runningvms
Name: Ubuntu2
Guest OS: Other Linux
UUID: df6e7d7d-3e48-43f9-8358-126a89428fe3
Config file: /home/metskem/VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu2/Ubuntu2.vbox
Snapshot folder: /home/metskem/VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu2/Snapshots
Log folder: /home/metskem/VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu2/Logs
Hardware UUID: df6e7d7d-3e48-43f9-8358-126a89428fe3
Memory size: 256MB
Page Fusion: off
VRAM size: 8MB
CPU exec cap: 100%
HPET: off
.......<cut>...........
Guest:
Configured memory balloon size: 0 MB
Snapshots:
Name: snapshot1 (UUID: 57ac3601-49b4-4d92-b9df-a8fba4035285) *
}}}
%%
Now we can take a clone of this snapshot :\\
%%(background-color : #d3ee03 )VBoxManage clonevm Ubuntu2 --options keepdisknames --name Ubuntu3 --basefolder '/home/metskem/VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu3' --register %%
This takes a couple of minutes to complete :
%%small
{{{
metskem@gneisenau ~ $ VBoxManage clonevm Ubuntu2 --snapshot snapshot1 --options keepdisknames --name Ubuntu3 --basefolder '/home/metskem/VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu3' --register
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Machine has been successfully cloned as "Ubuntu3"
}}}
%%
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