Getting Start with VM (Oracle)

hey i am pretty new to kali linux,my first problem is that i dont know how to save a state in VM i know how to save it temporary but i want to save it like if i dont save that state it will be saved so the next time i log in i dos nt have to update everything that i did before,i dont mean that to save the whole state i mean to save like the things i updated or inslaled