VirtualBox

Opened 12 months ago

Last modified 12 months ago

#22079 new defect

Option to Remember last "Restore Snapshot at Power Off" setting

Reported by: jweber Owned by:
Component: GUI Version: VirtualBox-7.0.18
Keywords: ui Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description (last modified by jweber)

It would be awesome if we could get an option such that it again remembers what we last selected (As it did in VBox 6.x). I understand that this might be so that people don't accidentally lose data by resetting to the latest Snapshot. But requiring to enable this once manually is a reasonable compromise IMO.

I know of this command: VBoxManage setextradata "NameOfVM" GUI/DiscardStateOnPowerOff 1

But in my case, I'd like to discard the state in 90%, but sometimes I need to keep it (e.g. after I have loaded a kernel module that causes a crash, and I now want to attach a kernel debugger (after a shut down of the VM)).

Additionally: Currently after setting "GUI/DiscardStateOnPowerOff" the UI does not reflect what is happening. After a Week or so I may have forgotten about this option (which I never had to use prior to VBox 7), and think "Ok this checkbox is unchecked, so my state will be kept".

Change History (2)

comment:1 by jweber, 12 months ago

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comment:2 by jweber, 12 months ago

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