VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#4664 closed defect (fixed)

Fix progress indicator when discarding a snapshot

Reported by: Sander Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 3.0.2
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: Windows

Description

On my computer (Vista SP2) it takes about 20 minutes to discard a snapshot (of a not-running virtual machine). However the time indicator starts at about 5 seconds, and raises slowly until it reaches ~5-6 minutes. In this time 5 minutes have past already.

Is it plausible to

  1. Speed the discarding up
  2. Correct the 'time-left'-timer

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Guest type: BSDother
Keywords: Discarding snapshot takes long time removed
Summary: Discarding a snapshot takes 20 minutesFix progress indicator when discarding a snapshot

I doubt that speeding up the discard snapshot operation is possible. Note that discarding means that two disk images needs to be merged which can be very time consuming depending of the number of changes which were made after the snapshot was created. Well, the progress indicator should show more sane values of course.

comment:2 by umoeller, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

This should have been fixed with version 3.1 to the extent that it's fixable. Unfortunately merging diff images ("discarding" in the old terminology) is not a linear process because the progress depends on which sectors are occupied in the diff images and thus need to be copied, which is not easily predictable.

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