Support snapshotting SUT

[jantman]

It would be really nice to be able to snapshot SUTs. There's a Vagrant plugin for VirtualBox that does it quite nicely, though I haven't tried the cross-provider ones.

I think that the ideal implementation for me would be to just let the user handle all of it, i.e. simply expose the functionality via the DSL and let me, in my tests, take_snapshot(:step1) and restore_snapshot(:step1).

I know it's a pretty big undertaking and I hate submitting issues that I have little to no intent of trying to fix, but this came up when I was trying to test voxpupuli/puppet-rabbitmq#221 (where the package simply can't be cleanly upgraded/downgraded).

[ferventcoder]

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[anodelman]

This issue is also filed internally, but it of low priority.

[madAndroid]

We've had great success using vagrant-multiprovider-snap - it's got support for vmware-{fusion,workstation}, virtualbox and hyper-v ..
perhaps it could be integrated into Beaker as well? We've been using it with vagrant-cucumber, but a new project we've recently started is going to be implementing Beaker instead.

[alexjfisher]

My use case is testing roles. I followed http://tech.opentable.co.uk/blog/2014/09/01/testing-puppet-with-beaker-pt-dot-3-testing-roles/ but then wanted a way to reset my test environment between tests.

[anodelman]

#654 closed due to inactivity.

[jantman]

So this is just off the table?