For the very first time I tried the "save machine state" in Sun
VirtualBox last week. This morning I confidently went to open my
Windows virtual machine to peek at some past invoices. I got a little
dialog that reported that VirtualBox was "restoring machine state". It
duly got to 99% -- then my machine reset, suddenly and without giving
Linux a chance to do anything at all. Fortunately I didn't have
anything else running, at least in user space, in either the Windows
virtual machine or on my Linux box.
Being stubborn, I tried it again. Same deal.
Fortunately again, Sun gives you a way to discard the state of the
virtual machine ("warning this is just like giving the virtual machine a
hard reset" says Sun -- "well good!", thinks I), and doing so retrieved
things to the point where I can get my accounting done.
Is this a known problem? The obvious work-around is "don't do that",
but I'm wondering if there's anything I could do differently to make it
all better.
The only thing I can think of that may be unusual is that the virtual
machine was created under the GPL version, but I'm now running Sun's
free binary so I can get access to the USB ports.
TIA
--
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
Voice: 503-631-7815
Cell: 503-349-8432
http://www.wescottdesign.com
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