A couple newbie questions

[roboaks]

I am new to Vagrant, which I am using to test Chocolatey packages I am developing. I am using the Vagrant Chocolatey Test Environment, which is working well.

Here are my naïve questions:

1. Does a vagrant sandbox commit survive the various Vagrant teardown commands, such as vagrant suspend and vagrant halt, and vagrant destroy? That is, will a vagrant up after that restore the VM state at the time the vagrant sandbox commit was issued?
2. Assuming that vagrant sandbox commit only survives a suspend, to establish a new suspend-surviving VM can I just issue:

   vagrant sandbox on
   do stuff on the vm
   vagrant sandbox commit
   vagrant suspend
   

The issue I'm dealing with is that the Chocolatey Test Environment (CTE) VM contains some software, such as Notepad++, that I am actually building packages for, so I don't want it to be installed on the VM when I start my package testing. I also don't want to have to uninstall all this software when I start my testing after working on other things for a while. Can you suggest the best practice workflow for this situation?

Thanks so much.