There is no way to recover an saved virtual machine from an older version of VirtualBox

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

When trying to start a virtual machine of mine I get an alert sheet with a single "OK" button saying:

Unable to restore the virtual machine's saved state from '/Users/lars/Library/VirtualBox/Machines/FreeBSD 7.0/Snapshots/{aed10561-3b8b-4bf3-3e8c-a63e0af8c828}.sav'. It may be damaged or from an older version of VirtualBox. Please discard the saved state before starting the virtual machine. VBox status code: -1822 (VERR_SSM_DATA_UNIT_FORMAT_CHANGED).

Fehlercode: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Komponente: Console Interface: IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}

as soon as I click "OK" the machine is shut down. I would be really good if I could somehow recover from that situation, like having an option to reset the VM would be sufficient here.

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Alert sheet for corrupt saved VM, there is no way to recover from that situation, an "Reset" button would be fine

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Which VirtualBox version created this saved state then? 2.x is backwards compatible with 1.6, but not with earlier versions. That can't be changed.

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

1.6.2 IMHO. Anyway I could recover my VM by deleting the snapshot in ~/Library/VirtualBox/Machines/FreeBSD 7.0/Snapshots.

I think there should be a reset button anyway which does exactly this.

regards,

Lars

[Frank Mehnert]

Should be really working now since some releases. Please reopen if necessary. If you experience such a case, please make sure to provide the version number of VBox which made the saved state and the release of VBox which tries to load the saved state).