This appears to be an issue of user error at install time, specifically
in regards to the installer asking if the clock is set to UTC.  Many
people who are installing in VirtualBox may be doing so on top of an
existing Ubuntu install, where their computer clock may, indeed, be set
to UTC.  The passthrough to VB is a localtime passthrough AFAIK.
Therefore, when the virtual install comes up, it's using local time and
assuming that's UTC, but this can make for a disk that appears to have
been edited in the future.  The filesystem screams "error."

It would seem there are two ways to fix this:  1) an updated installer
that checks to see if it's being installed in VirtualBox, or 2) the
easiest solution: update the installer message to inform the user that
virtual machines may need to be set to local time even if the machine is
set to UTC.

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On VirtualBox, Ubuntu 9.10 says that the filesystem has been damaged
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421477
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