Oracle Virtualbox snapshots status

Solution 1:

If I understand things correctly, then:

  • green with play triangle play means snapshot taken for running machine (called "online");
  • red with stop square stop means snapshot taken for stopped machine (called "offline").

I usually take snapshots of stopped machines to avoid possible problems.

For details see: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.16/UserManual.pdf (ch. 1.10, 5.4, 8.6).