Opened 17 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#896 closed defect (obsolete)
Error "hard disk with two children" after disk full during "discard current snapshot"
| Reported by: | Frans Pop | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | VM control | Version: | VirtualBox 1.5.2 |
| Keywords: | snapshot | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description (last modified by )
I had a fairly long series of snapshots without noticing that I was running out of disk space. I wanted to get back to an earlier snapshot, so selected "discard current snapshot and state".
After a while I got an error that the operation failed because lack of diskspace. After freeing up some space I tried again but the discard would not start with an error message saying that a disk had two children (sorry, don't have exact message anymore).
The attached screenshot shows the situation in the disk manager.
I managed to recover by deleting one of the children from ~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml (and modifying a reference to that snapshot in the machine's XML file). After that deleting the snapshots worked again.
I'm running the Debian virtualbox-ose 1.5.2 package.
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Change History (3)
by , 17 years ago
| Attachment: | VBox_snapshot.png added |
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comment:1 by , 16 years ago
| Component: | other → VM control |
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comment:2 by , 8 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Resolution: | → obsolete |
| Status: | new → closed |
Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.
Screenshot of disk manager