John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:51:31 -0800 > Tim Wescott <[email protected]> dijo: > > >> 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. >> > > I am using the OSE version on Fedora 11 x86_64. (You didn't say which > distro you have.) > > It is working fine here, but I note that the Software Update GUI has > announced a number of updates for the kernel, for virtualbox, and for > the tools that virtualbox uses to update itself for kernel updates. All > these updates have been in the past week. > > I can't offer other suggestions, but since there have been some recent > changes, perhaps they are responsible for your current issues. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Ubuntu (I always forget at least one important detail the first time around -- that's how you know I've not been replaced by an AI trying to pass a Turing test).
It may have been there from day 1 -- this is the first, and probably last for a long while, time that I tried saving the machine state. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
