Opened 18 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#822 closed defect
Error handling when shared folder is missing is broken — at Initial Version
Reported by: | Ronny Standtke | Owned by: | |
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Component: | VM control | Version: | VirtualBox 1.6.4 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
Here is a scenario where the error handling of VirtualBox is broken: 1) add a shared folder to a virtual machine 2) remove the "real" directory while vbox is not running 3) restart VirtualBox
The user gets the following error message: "The snapshot folder of a machine with snapshots cannot be changed (please discard all snapshots first)."
First of all, the error message has absolutely nothing to do with the real problem (non-existance of a specified shared folder) and is very misleading.
Secondly, a missing folder is no fatal situation, it should be possible for a user to recover from this situation without manually editing some obscure XML files.