Hello,

I've got a few inter-related questions:

1) How does one shut down the VM while saving its current/latest state, so that 
next time the VM is started it has the exact same state as when it was shut 
down?
I did look at this: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#id2644986
And I did try both the "Save machine state" and "Send the shutdown  signal", 
but 

neither method preserved the actual, latest state of the VM  at the time of 
shutdown.

2) Is there anything one has to do/configure to get the VM (more precisely, its 
disk) to have its true, up to date state state/content always preserved?  That 
is, if the VM crashes, then when I star the VM again, is there any way to have 
the disk be in the same state as just before the crash? (i.e. just like the 
regular filesystem on real disks in non-VM environments)

3) I'm a new VirtualBox user.  Using the latest VBox, I installed Ubuntu 10.04 
from an Ubuntu 10.04 ISO file I had downloaded on the Windows 7 host.  The 
install went fine and I can use the VM just fine.  However, when I stop the VM 
and then start it again, I keep getting asked to install Ubuntu, as if I didn't 
already install.  But I know Ubuntu I installed IS on the virtual disk image, 
because if I play along and select to do the install again, I see that the 
installer recognizes there is something already on disk.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Otis

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