Opened 16 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#3811 closed defect (obsolete)
Discarding a Snapshot when there was almost no space on the device resulted in leaving the entire VM inoperable
| Reported by: | Andres G. Aragoneses | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 2.1.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Linux |
Description
Discarding a Snapshot when there was almost no space on the device resulted in leaving the entire VM inoperable. When this happened, I received an error with some text like "could not merge the hard disk"... Since that moment, I haven't been able to use the VM because I received "VERR" errors when trying to launch it. I had to delete it.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 15 years ago
comment:2 by , 9 years ago
| Resolution: | → obsolete |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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+1. I've lost count of the number of virtual machines that I've managed to trash by starting to discard a snapshot, then running out of disk space in the process.
This process needs to be failsafe. At the *very* least, Vbox should warn you if you only have a few Gb left on the host disk, that it might be a bad idea. But even that's not really good enough.