Can't create snapshots when ~/Library/VirtualBox is a symlink

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Hi,

I have had the following setup on my machine to be able to switch between different versions of VirtualBox easily:

local-admins-macbook-pro:Library lars$ pwd
/Users/lars/Library
local-admins-macbook-pro:Library lars$ ls -al
total 40
.
.
.
lrwxr-xr-x    1 lars  staff    17 25 Jan 01:32 VirtualBox -> VirtualBox 2.0.6/
drwxr-xr-x   14 lars  staff   476 25 Jan 02:49 VirtualBox 2.0.6
drwxr-xr-x   13 lars  staff   442 18 Dez 11:56 VirtualBox 2.1.0
drwxr-xr-x   13 lars  staff   442 24 Jan 23:28 VirtualBox 2.1.2
.
.
.
local-admins-macbook-pro:Library lars$ 

Everything is working in that kind of setup so far but I noticed that I am no longer able to save snapshots, when trying I get the following error message:

Failed to create a snapshot of the virtual machine Windows XP Professional. Result Code: Unknown Status 0xBFFFCBD4

However, after reverting to a setup without a symlink (e.g. removing the symlink and renaming the directory "VirtualBox 2.0.6" to just "VirtualBox" everything works again

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

screenshot of the error message that shows up

[Edward Pilatowicz]

i see this same failures. my home directory is stored on an nfs filesystem, so for performance reasons i have created ~/.VirtualBox as a symlink to a local filesystem.