On 03/24/2012 07:30 AM, John Francis Lee wrote:
> 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'
>
Looking in
.VirtualBox/Machines/xp/Snapshots
I find nothing.
It is not apparent what to change in
.VirtualBox/Machines/xp/xp.xml
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jfl@ws3:~$ VBoxManage snapshot xp
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 4.1.10
(C) 2005-2012 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.
Usage:
VBoxManage snapshot <uuid>|<name>
take <name> [--description <desc>] [--pause] |
delete <uuid>|<name> |
restore <uuid>|<name> |
restorecurrent |
edit <uuid>|<name>|--current
[--name <name>]
[--description <desc>] |
list [--details|--machinereadable]
showvminfo <uuid>|<name>
Syntax error: Not enough parameters
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I can't figure out how to run that command... all I get is error after error
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