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Topic Started: Tuesday Sep 28 2010, 07:51 AM (467 Views)
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Oh, and if anyone uses VirtualBox, be sure to backup your VirtualBox.xml file. A few days ago, I had a power outage while I was saving a virtual machine's state and it wiped that file.

Apparently that file stores pretty much all of the information used by VirtualBox for your virtual machines and media. So with it gone, all of my virtual machines and their settings were removed from my virtual machines list. I had to re-add them all manually, and try to remember all of their settings. To make it worse, all of the virtual machines with snapshots were reverted back to the original snapshot.
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Slayer706
Tuesday Sep 28 2010, 01:55 PM
If the game is at least ten years old, it will probably run in a VM. Sim City 2000, Age of Empires 1 and 2, Doom, etc. will all run fine.
Yea it's actually turn based so....lol
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Tuesday Sep 28 2010, 02:25 PM
Oh, and if anyone uses VirtualBox, be sure to backup your VirtualBox.xml file. A few days ago, I had a power outage while I was saving a virtual machine's state and it wiped that file.

Apparently that file stores pretty much all of the information used by VirtualBox for your virtual machines and media. So with it gone, all of my virtual machines and their settings were removed from my virtual machines list. I had to re-add them all manually, and try to remember all of their settings. To make it worse, all of the virtual machines with snapshots were reverted back to the original snapshot.
Ain't that a bitch. So a power loss while saving one VM affected all others?
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Tuesday Sep 28 2010, 03:43 PM
Slayer706
Tuesday Sep 28 2010, 02:25 PM
Oh, and if anyone uses VirtualBox, be sure to backup your VirtualBox.xml file. A few days ago, I had a power outage while I was saving a virtual machine's state and it wiped that file.

Apparently that file stores pretty much all of the information used by VirtualBox for your virtual machines and media. So with it gone, all of my virtual machines and their settings were removed from my virtual machines list. I had to re-add them all manually, and try to remember all of their settings. To make it worse, all of the virtual machines with snapshots were reverted back to the original snapshot.
Ain't that a bitch. So a power loss while saving one VM affected all others?
Yep. All VM settings, media information, and snapshot information are saved in that one file, which is apparently completely re-written whenever you revert a machine to a previous snapshot. And no one at VirtualBox thought it was a good idea for the program to make a backup of that critical file before writing over it.

What's worse, there is no way to get the program to scan your files and rebuild the file automatically. You have to manually recreate all the virtual machines and hope you get the settings right. And you can just forget about snapshots.

VirtualBox is on very thin ice with me at this point.
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Fuck that noise.

VM Ware WS FTW!
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It makes no sense that saving the state of a single VM instance can fubar everything. I can see where the one image would be damaged, but everything???
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Tuesday Sep 28 2010, 04:20 PM
It makes no sense that saving the state of a single VM instance can fubar everything. I can see where the one image would be damaged, but everything???
As I said, that one file stores everything and the program rewrites the file when you revert a snapshot on one of your virtual machines. And it doesn't make a backup before doing so.

It's poor design.
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Uhh... no fucking way are you running Ghostbusters at any playable settings in any VM. It's too new of a game.
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This has already been communicated.
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