Cancel option for export appliance operation desired

[nico-cr]

VB estimates three hours to export one of my VMs. And no cancel button. There should be a cancel button. Closing the dialog doesn't seem to stop the operation either. Only killing the VBoxSVC process did it.

[nico-cr]

This was a Windows host.

[VVP]

Try to close the window with progress information. may be it helps.

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Note that the estimates often are extremely pessimistic, often at least a factor of 10 off initially. It usually happens that after 20-30% of the export is done the estimate drops to a few minutes because the upper area of the disk image doesn't contain data and is thus orders of magnitude faster to process. This can't be easily taken into account during the initial estimate as the data distribution on disk isn't known at that point.

[buachaille]

The same happens with Mac OSX host. Canceling the export dialog does nothing to solve the problem since it takes you back to the dialog before that. Unless you sit through the lengthy export process, the only option is to kill the process.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.