title: VirtualBox Linked Clones Deletion
body: <p>This is a 2 part question...</p>
  
  <p>I have created a Master VM, a Full Clone of the master for Dev work, and I want to try some new code, it will have implications to the OS, and the MySQL DB that is currently installed. I don't want to mess up the clone so I will spawn a new clone from it. 
  My question is if I create a linked clone, run the code I put on it and choose to delete the linked clone, will it like a snapshot merge the code back into the VM that I created a link from or will the diff discs just be removed?</p>
  
  <p>The second part to this is... if the linked clone is just deleted and not merged back into the originating VM, what happens with the snapshot that the originating VM takes? Is is safe to delete/merge or just keep spawning linked clones off of it?</p>
  
  <p>I have the hard drive space, I just dont feel like waiting 30 minutes to spawn full clones for each new potential feature.</p>