Error VERR_INVALID_HANDLE when saving a snapshot.

[Christian Elberfeld]

When I save the virtual machine state very I get the following error very often. After the error Message the virtual machine keeps running.

Mostly I get this error when more than one virtual machine is running.

I also had this Problem with Virtualbox 2.00 and 1.6.4.

Failed to save the machine state to '/home/chris/.VirtualBox/Machines/
   CON-NBCE-VIRTUAL/Snapshots/{aff381cd-be96-4314-2eac-01def83676ec}.sav' (VERR_INVALID_HANDLE).
Fehlercode: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Komponente: Console
Interface:  IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Please attach the VBox.log of the failed session. Not sure what could cause the error. Are you running out of disk space by any chance?

[Christian Elberfeld]

During this week it seems that the error occures every time I try to save an VM if i hat VMs running for al long time (approx 8 hours).

The Error occures at exactly 79% for both VMs and on each try. Shutting down Windows on the machine causes the VirtualBox processes to hang an block the CPU un the host so I had to kill them.

Disk space is no problem, my home partition has > 30 GB free space.

I'll pick up the logfiles on the next crash.

[Christian Elberfeld]

I attached the logs from both VMs. Both had the same error while Itried to save the state and both hang aftrer I tried ti shutdown the guest OS.

I tried to start and stop the VMs several times without problems. It seems that the problem only occures if the VMs are running several hours.

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi, which VBox package did you install?

[Christian Elberfeld]

I am running debian lenny (amd64) an using the Package from virualbox.org (ClosedSource)

[David Grant]

I have the same problem right now. I'm using Ubuntu Intrepid (amd64). I'll attach my log file.

[David Grant]

VBox.log

[Frank Mehnert]

Please reopen if still relevant with VBox 3.1.2.