Friday, May 27, 2016

Virtualbox crashing VMs on startup

FYI:

*WARNING* Almost *all* of my VM's stopped working today.  I got some error on startup - but before they could really even start to start up.
*In case you have this problem* here is the work around I figured out, it is strange:
1. In virtual box there are some alternate ways to start a VM, one is called "Detachable Start"
2. Start your failing VM using "Detachable Start", you may have to start it twice
3. When it starts is will have crashed Windows and rebooted Windows ( so you will not have the state you saved the VM in )
4. Once it starts, snapshot it and that new snapshot will start up normally.

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