On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:29:49 -0700, christos.kolias wrote: > Hi, When I am running debian-gnome-desktop (ver. 2.22.3) VM on Sun > VirtualBox (ver. 3.1.4) it sometimes freezes (i.e., when downloading a > file) - my only option is to reset the VM which means losing any files I > have installed, and any work I've done since it reboots from scratch. Is > there any way to shut it down without losing my work (the shutdown > option btw does not respond).
A VM is like a true OS in this respect, so no, if the system hangs there is no way to recover the data, that is, you have to perform a "hard reset" by shutting down or resetting the machine. The same remains true for standard (real) installations. What you have to do is debugging the system "lock/freeze" the same way you would do with a real system. Tips: 1/ Can you ssh into the VM when is locked? Maybe is X what freezes and not the kernel. 2/ Do you have any interesting information about the lock in the logs? 3/ VirtualBox tends to "pause" the VM and you have to manually put into "play" again. I think it pauses the machine because it has low resources available. Check the host specs and guest VM settings for system and video RAM. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.03.17.10.50...@gmail.com
