Save Snapshots of a Virtual Machine

A snapshot is a saved state of a virtual machine. It's useful to create snapshots, for example, before:

you're going to run some programs that may damage the guest operating system;
you're going to configure some guest OS software that requires a lot of settings; or
you want to mark milestones in the development process.

Note: If your virtual machine has one or more snapshots, you can neither compress nor resize its virtual hard disk.

If something goes wrong, you can revert the changes back to any of your snapshots and continue working with the virtual machine.

Create a Snapshot

To create a snapshot:

Start Parallels Workstation.
In the sidebar , select the virtual machine for which you want to create a snapshot and click Virtual Machine > Take Snapshot .
Specify the snapshot name and click OK .

Revert to a Snapshot

To revert to a snapshot:

Start Parallels Workstation.
In the sidebar , select the virtual machine that you want to revert and click Virtual Machine > Manage Snapshots .
Select the snapshot to which you want to revert and click Go To .

Delete a Snapshot

To delete a snapshot:

Start Parallels Workstation.
In the sidebar , select the virtual machine which snapshot you want to delete and click Virtual Machine > Manage Snapshots .
Select the snapshot you want to delete and click Delete .

When you delete an intermediate snapshot, the information it contains is merged into the next snapshot.