Hello, For posterity - "Save the machine state" actually works. I must have just thought I used that option, when in fact I must have used a different option. The "Save the machine state" option works as documented.
Thank you, Otis ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mark Cranness <[email protected]> > To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users ><[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, August 8, 2010 6:34:49 PM > Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Shutdown, real-time disk state preservation > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
