** Description changed: While suspending a guest, if the suspend image fails to be saved because of insufficient space, the guest is left in irrecoverable state and must therefore be powered down the hardway. + + Note though, that I don't expect it to be able to suspend when the FS + doesn't have enough capacity to store the image. I do expect it not to + become irrecoverable (e.g, you can't go back into the guest and ask it + to shutdown cleanly or perhaps just leave the guest running while you + are able to free some space from the filesystem.) + ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: virtualbox-ose 3.2.8-dfsg-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.59-generic-pae 2.6.35.13 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Nov 24 13:03:10 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1) ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: virtualbox-ose
** Description changed: While suspending a guest, if the suspend image fails to be saved because of insufficient space, the guest is left in irrecoverable state and - must therefore be powered down the hardway. + must therefore be powered down the hard way. - Note though, that I don't expect it to be able to suspend when the FS - doesn't have enough capacity to store the image. I do expect it not to - become irrecoverable (e.g, you can't go back into the guest and ask it - to shutdown cleanly or perhaps just leave the guest running while you - are able to free some space from the filesystem.) - + I don't expect it to be able to suspend when the FS doesn't have enough + capacity to store the image. I do expect VirtualBox not to become + irrecoverable (e.g, you can't go back into the guest and ask it to + shutdown cleanly via, say, guest OS shutdown commands or perhaps just + leave the guest running while you are working away to free the space + from the filesystem so that you can retry suspending the guest (aka + "Saving state to disk".) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: virtualbox-ose 3.2.8-dfsg-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.59-generic-pae 2.6.35.13 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Nov 24 13:03:10 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: virtualbox-ose -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/894375 Title: VirtualBox hangs irrecoverably when suspending guest and the filesystem is full To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ose/+bug/894375/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
