| 5 | | 1) I have a Windows XP VM named XPMCEV running in Oracle VirtualBox. The host operating system is Windows 7. The virtual hard disk (VHD format) for the XP VM is sitting in a "V:" drive which is a second hard drive on my machine. The virtual machine folder (including snapshots folder) is in the default location "C:\Users\[userid]\VirtualBox VMs\XPMCEV". |
| 6 | | 2) I have been using VirtualBox for almost 5 years now and before virtual box version 4.3.*, I could take snapshots of my VM and work with the snapshots. |
| 7 | | 3) Starting from version 4.3.*, when I create snapshots for VMs whose hard disk file is not in the default virtual machine folder (C:\Users\[userid]\VirtualBox VMs\[VMName]), after creating the snapshot, when I start the VM, I get the error I logged in this ticket. |
| 8 | | 4) I say that the issue started from version 4.3.* onwards because in one of the forums, I saw someone mention that snapshots would work if the VHD files were in the default machine folder. So I tested by moving my VHD file to the default machine folder and snapshots worked. Then I uninstalled VirtualBox and started installing older versions until I found a version where snapshots worked with the VHD file outside the default machine folder (aka V: drive). This version turned out to be 4.2.6 (I haven't tried 4.2.28). However the problem for me with version 4.2.6 is that it didn't support Windows Server 2012 as a guest operating system. |
| | 5 | 1. I have a Windows XP VM named XPMCEV running in Oracle !VirtualBox. The host operating system is Windows 7. The virtual hard disk (VHD format) for the XP VM is sitting in a "V:" drive which is a second hard drive on my machine. The virtual machine folder (including snapshots folder) is in the default location "C:\Users\[userid]\!VirtualBox VMs\XPMCEV". |
| | 6 | 2. I have been using !VirtualBox for almost 5 years now and before virtual box version 4.3.*, I could take snapshots of my VM and work with the snapshots. |
| | 7 | 3. Starting from version 4.3.*, when I create snapshots for VMs whose hard disk file is not in the default virtual machine folder (C:\Users\[userid]\!VirtualBox VMs\[VMName]), after creating the snapshot, when I start the VM, I get the error I logged in this ticket. |
| | 8 | 4. I say that the issue started from version 4.3.* onwards because in one of the forums, I saw someone mention that snapshots would work if the VHD files were in the default machine folder. So I tested by moving my VHD file to the default machine folder and snapshots worked. Then I uninstalled !VirtualBox and started installing older versions until I found a version where snapshots worked with the VHD file outside the default machine folder (aka V: drive). This version turned out to be 4.2.6 (I haven't tried 4.2.28). However the problem for me with version 4.2.6 is that it didn't support Windows Server 2012 as a guest operating system. |
