On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Onno van der Straaten wrote: > To save some HD space I started discarding snapshots. The first one > discarded fine and freed up disk space. The second one I tried to > discard produced an error message that HD space was not sufficient > which I think is incorrect because around 11gb was available. I also > assumed discarding snapshots would free up disk space and not use more > disk space but that might have been a wrong assumption.
I've seen the same problem. The thing is (IIUC) that, because snapshots are deltas, to discard a snapshot VBox first has to merge that snapshot into the either the snapshot following it, or into the current state. This means that before it can free diskspace, it will first use more diskspace to create the new "merged" image. And it does seem that during that process it does not handle "out of diskspace" conditions very nicely. Whether your 11GB was enough or not depends on the size of your snapshots, but I don't think it's likely that it showed an out of diskspace error if that was not really the case. > Now I have only one node in the VirtualBox GUI named 'Current State' > which is what I wanted but now the VM fails to start with error message > below. > > Is there a way to recover my VM? It seems it is gone. You may be able to manually edit the .xml file for the machine and remove the references for the no longer existing snapshots, leaving only the remaining VDI. Cheers, FJP _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
