VirtualBox

Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #16660, comment 8


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Jun 19, 2017 5:23:46 PM (7 years ago)
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Philip Seeger

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  • Ticket #16660, comment 8

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    11In response to the last comment:
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    23It usually happens in fullscreen mode, yes. This is simply because I tend to have most of my vms running in fullscreen mode at all times. But see below.
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    35It's good that you're asking - no, I'm not able to do anything. I can't open the menu and when I move the mouse to the top, the toolbar does not appear either. The window is dead and the fact that it's "transparent" (for the lack of a better term) can lead to confusion if you don't know that what looks like your desktop is actually a frozen VirtualBox window.
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    47I probably used vboxmanage once or twice to take a snapshot of a frozen vm. I definitely used it a few times to suspend it (savestate). The last few times, I used the VirtualBox Manager gui, which is still able to work with frozen vms except it can't start them (start button disabled).
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    69Today, new freeze:
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    711It happened again. This time, a backup script suspended the vms before I could take a core dump (I have one, but it's after suspending and taking a snapshot).
    8123 vms were affected, which indicates that this happens randomly. It's happening a lot recently, which makes working with VirtualBox difficult.

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