Stephan, Thanks for the response. Hope your experiment went well. As an update for the group (hoping some devs see this), I have successfully deleted one of the snapshots. The first error message, "hard disk has more than 1 child disk", was due to me somehow having a couple different copies of the actual Windows VDI disk file laying around. I can't remember exactly what I did to fix it, but I recall reviewing everything tied to the VM within Settings -> Storage, and also browsing to the VM's path on the host machine and deleting all of the files that weren't actually in use.
I continue to get a *segmentation fault* whenever I try to delete the first snapshot. I've upgraded to VirtualBox 5.0.12, and have also tried cloning the machine again - but I quickly confirmed that Windows lost its activation again on the clone. I've backed up the entire dump / log / crash file that Ubuntu automatically sends out whenever an application ends unexpectedly, so if someone wants to see that, or if I should submit a bug report, I can provide it. By the way, here's my (now, 2) questions (1 of them resolved) on SuperUser: 1. http://superuser.com/questions/1011325/virtualbox-windows-10-guest-resizing-snapshots-and-losing-activation 2. http://superuser.com/questions/1016721/virtualbox-segfault-when-deleting-snapshot - David On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Stephan Hockley <stephan.hock...@yahoo.com> wrote: > David, > > I can not answer your question, but on two unrelated issues: I have never > been able to get my Microsoft product keys to be recognized in VBox nor > VMware Fusion, and second, I did a Win 10 update last weekend and lost > ethernet on the host machine. In short, found a community post and > restored it. > > You have prompted my curiosity and I believe I will create a Win 10 VM > this week. > > Good luck with this issue, I've been busy as of late, and hoping to become > more responsive to the VBox user community. > > Stephan > > > > On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 6:03 AM, David White <dmwhite...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I asked the following question on Superuser about a week ago, but my > question hasn't gained any traction. > > I have a Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox (Ubuntu 14 host, VirtualBox 5.0.10 > platform). It was originally a Windows 7 virtual machine, and Windows 7 was > fully activated. > A few days ago, I wanted to run some Windows Updates on the Windows 10 VM > to install Threshold 2, but I was told that there wasn't enough disk space. > No problem, I figured I would just resize the disk.... except, that's a > problem. I increased the disk size from 45GB up to 60GB using vboxmanage, > but neither Windows nor gparted running on a Live CD will recognize the > increased storage space. > I read some documentation that indicates there's a bug in VirtualBox that > prevents a guest VM from recognizing increased storage space when snapshots > are present. > I have 2 snapshots (that I don't really care about) of the Windows 10, so > I figured that my snapshots are preventing the virtual machine from seeing > the increased disk size. > When I go to delete the snapshots, I get either of the following results, > depending on which snapshot it is that I'm trying to delete: > > - *For the 2nd snapshot / child snapshot - *Error message - Hard disk > {path-to-disk file} has more than one child hard disk (2). *or...* > - *For the "parent" snapshot*, VirtualBox takes a long time acting > like it is merging the differences, and then fails (completely crashes). > Ubuntu's message whenever an application crashes appears with "The > application Oracle VM VirtualBox has closed unexpectedly" > - This is the only line I see in /var/log/syslog: Dec 15 05:52:20 > Develop-CENTS kernel: [ 2082.315873] DeleteSnap[6852]: segfault at 20 ip > 00000000006e3eab sp 00007f8c97893888 error 4 in VBoxSVC[400000+45b000] > > So then I read that if I clone the VM, that would essentially get rid of > the snapshots for me, and then I could increase the disk size on the cloned > VM. > That's what I did, and I then successfully installed Threshold 2. > About a week later, as I was doing some work, I noticed that Windows was > telling me that it wasn't activated. I went into the Settings, and the > message I read indicated was that "Windows 10 isn't activated because the > previous version of Windows was never activated." > Fortunately, I had a backed up copy of the old VM (pre-clone, and > pre-updating to Threshold 2). I turned that back on, and confirmed that > Windows was indeed activated. > So I'm up a creek. > > 1. Why the heck did Windows 10 lose its activation on the clone that I > created? > 2. Can I create a clone without Windows losing its activation? > 3. If not, how can I delete these snapshots, which are preventing me > from resizing the hard disk that Windows uses? > > -- David
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