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      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="snapshot-revert">
  <info>
    <revision pkgversion="3.14" date="2014-09-14" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.24.0" date="2017-05-02" status="review"/>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#snapshots"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhill@gnome.org</email>
      <years>2014</years>
    </credit>

    <desc>Change back to the state of a saved snapshot.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Revert the state of a box</title>

  <p><em>Reverting</em> to a snapshot restores the state of the virtual machine
  saved in that snapshot.</p>

  <steps>
    <item><p>Right-click on the box in the collection view and select
    <gui>Properties</gui>, or if the box is running, click the menu
    (<media its:translate="no" type="image" src="figures/open-menu-symbolic.svg"><span its:translate="yes">settings</span></media>)
    button in the header bar and select <gui>Properties</gui>.</p></item>
    <item><p>Click the <gui>Snapshots</gui> tab.</p></item>
    <item><p>From the list, select the snapshot to which you want to
    revert.</p></item>
    <item><p>Click the gear button on the right and select
    <gui>Revert to this state</gui>.</p></item>
  </steps>

  <p>Changes made to the virtual machine since the snapshot was saved are
  discarded.</p>

</page>
