-=> Khelair wrote to Android8675 <=-
Kh> Re: Linux on EFI systems
Kh> By: Android8675 to Khelair on Tue Apr 22 2014 10:15:02
> Care to elaborate on what causes VB to eat drives? I keep a snapshot of my B
> on a network drive, but I'd rather not have to restore my system in the near
> future, if it is in fact a big issue. Running WinXP Guest on Win7/x64 Host,
> also have Debian Wheezy Guest running.
Kh> Well, I'm not sure exactly what it is that causes VB to eat
Kh> the drives, honestly. I do know that when there are hard crashes, or
Kh> anything of the sort, the probability increases to near 100% when a VM
Kh> is active, though. I've been able to restore to a recent snapshot
Weird. I've had an occasional lockup/crash under VirtualBox...don't
remember what I was doing at the time, except that it was stuff that
would normally go off without a hitch on real hardware. Also notable
that I've never had a crash on a Linux host, all my crashes were on
Windows.
Anyways, I haven't had any recent virtual disk problems -- yet. I did
have one XP guest get trashed several years ago, and it was very
frustrating at the time.
In any case, nightly backups -- and possibly more frequent -- is
probably the best policy with virtualization. By its very nature,
anything virtualized is going to be less stable. What's working in
your current VM version isn't guaranteed to work as well in the next
version.
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