Comment by crawshaw

[exe.dev co-founder here] If you are curious, we have a `clone` command coming soon for sub-section creation of a new VM out of an existing VM. This is our first pass at checkpointing, rather than introducing an independent `snapshot` noun, you can keep a VM around as the snapshot.

We realize that is not going to cover all the business cases we have been discussing with customers and plan to introduce a snapshot concept (in particular for rewinding the state of a VM to an automatic backup), but we have a lot of FS work underway before we can launch it. There are some other things we want out of our VMs that we cannot do using conventional cloud techniques, so we have code to write.