Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > 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?
Save the machine state should have worked. Afterwards, the VM should stop, and display 'Saved' under the VM name in the main VB GUI. Starting it again should resume it exactly where it was. What did happen? What was shown under the machine name? > 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) If a machine crashes (physical or virtual), you can always loose data. However, if you disable host IO caching, a VM crash will be more exactly like a real machine crash, which matters for some filesystems. See http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch05.html#iocaching I think you can set this from the GUI now as well. > 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. The VM still has the Ubuntu 'CD' mounted in its virtual CD/DVD drive, so it is booting that, just as if you had left an Ubuntu install CD in a real machine. Either configure Settings > Storage and set the CD/DVD drive to Empty, or use the Devices menu on the VM. See http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#id2644953 Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
