﻿id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	guest	host
11479	Guest's disk is immutable when using iSCSI storage and snapshots => Fixed in SVN	rshaw		"I am running Virtualbox 4.2.6 on a Linux host and am running into a bug where state is getting reset every power off, much like the immutable flag is set on the harddrive itself.  This occurs when I am using iSCSI as the storage medium and have taken an offline snapshot of the system.  I have found one forum post with a seemingly identical problem.  (
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=52210)

Expected results:  Create / install a guest using iSCSI as storage.  Power off and take a snapshot.  Power back on, make changes, reboot the guest.  Changes should still present.

Actual results:  Create / install a guest using iSCSI as storage.  Power off and take a snapshot.  Power back on, make changes, reboot the guest.  Changes are now gone and state has been reverted back to the state of the latest snapshot.

Steps to reproduce:

-Click ""New"" and create a VM - in my case a Linux guest.
-allocate desried memory
-Select ""Do not add a virtual hard drive""

-Add the target per documentation (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp14412416).  Note that as of 4.2.6 this MUST be done through VBoxManage.  The GUI cannot do this.
In my case, the command was:

""VBoxManage storageattach ""GUEST_TEST"" --storagectl ""SATA"" --port 0 --device 0 --type hdd --medium iscsi --server localhost --target ""iqn.2003-04.mydomain.org"" --lun 2 --tport 3260""

-Install operating system into guest, then power off machine

-Take an offline snapshot.

-Every guest reboot will now revert to the state of the snpashot, much like it is now an immutable disk."	defect	closed	virtual disk	VirtualBox 4.2.6	fixed	iscsi snapshot revert state		Linux	Linux
