On 03/24/2012 06:27 AM, David wrote:
> On 3/23/2012 6:09 PM, John Francis Lee wrote:
>> On 03/22/2012 09:48 AM, John Francis Lee wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I tried to save state when shutting down a virtual machine but ran out
>>> of space in my home directory in the process. The machine became
>>> unresponsive I HUP'd it... now I get...
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Cannot attach medium '/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso'
>>> {a3e00632-0876-4367-a1f3-b8c66e66a571}: medium is already associated
>>> with the current state of machine uuid
>>> {591e86c6-b770-457b-8838-ccfc62e5d0b2}!.
>>> Result Code:
>>> VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80BB000C)
>>> Component:
>>> Medium
>>> Interface:
>>> IMedium {53f9cc0c-e0fd-40a5-a404-a7a5272082cd}
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> What should I do?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> So... I have to delete the old machine and reinstall it?! That doesn't
>> sound like fun...
>>
>
>
> Start the GUI. Highlight the 'broken' VM'. Right click and a menu will
> appear. Select "Discard Saved State". You get to keep the VM but this
> will remove the crashed saved state. When you next start the VM it
> should boot like a cold boot.
>
> You obviously need more space to do this since the "Saved State" file
> can be almost as large, often is, as large as the original VM.Thanks, but... when I right click on the broken VM the only choices available are 'remove' and 'refresh'... all the rest, including specifically 'Discard Saved State', are greyed out and unavailable. The description next to the icon is 'inaccessible' -- "This message may have been intercepted and read by U.S. government agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA and/or the present government of Thailand without notice or warrant or knowledge of sender or recipient." John Francis Lee 246/3 Thanon Kaew Wai Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
