control: tags -1 moreinfo Hello On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:05:32 +0200 IOhannes m zmoelnig <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: virtualbox > Version: 5.2.10-dfsg-5 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > My workflow with virtualbox heavily relies on being able to save snapshots of > running machines and then restore them on demand (much faster than booting!). > > Everything worked happily with 5.2.8-dfsg-10 (and 5.1.30-dfsg-1~bpo9+1). > However since I upgraded VirtualBox to 5.2.10-dfsg-5 (resp. > 5.2.10-dfsg-2~bpo9+2) restoring live snapshots stopped working. > > When I restore such a snapshot, i see a progress bar counting up to 100%, and > once it has reached 100% i get "The VM session was aborted. Error Code > NS_ERROR_FAILURE 0x80004005)" and the machine goes to "cancelled" state. > > Restoring a snapshot of a powered-off machine works fine, it's just the > restore > of a live-snapshot that fails. > > Downgrading to 5.2.8-dfsg-10 makes live-snapshots work again. > (at least for live-snapshots created with the same version (5.2.8-dfsg-10); > live-snapshots created with 5.2.10 fail to import into 5.2.8 with some version > error.) >
This seems an upstream regression, can you please report an upstream bug and link it here? you might also want to try the upstream official image, and also 5.2.10-dfsg-1 to just make sure I didn't make any error with my patches http://snapshot.debian.org/package/virtualbox/ G.
