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I recently upgraded to 5.1.22. I did not have any issues with the upgrade and my VM's still worked perfectly. Today I opened the VirtualBox Manager to launch a VM and all my VM's and snapshots are gone! The Manager is completely blank as if I just installed it. As stated everything still worked afte...

Worked perfect. Thank you!

I am trying to automatically mount my shared folder at boot. Host is Windows 10, guest is Debian 8.5. I can mount it no problem manually, but if I add the mount string to rc.local as advised in the how to thread (https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15868) it does not work. #system...

It looks like the cause for this is due to running in software rendering mode because the guest has not had the 3D acceleration enabled in the guest settings. Enable it and see if the CPU load reduces. That seemed to do the trick! Besides when the VM was booting and a quiz spike when some programs ...

Perryg wrote:Post the guests log file ( as an attachment )

Thank you for your reply. I have attached the log file as requested.

I just installed VirtualBox and setup my first guest, Debian 8.5 with Gnome. My CPU usage while the guest is idle is 17-20%. I am new to VirtualBox so this may be normal, but it seems high to me. System Specs: Intel i7-4790k 4.00GHz 32GB RAM Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB 120GB SSD (host and guest on th...

mpack wrote:Do not use raw disk access. Everything you know about the reasons why you might have wanted to do that - are not only wrong, but very very wrong.

Create a normal VDI on the SSD.

KISS!

Thanks for the advice! I will stick with a normal VDI.

Thank you for your replies! None of the above, except maybe buy an SSD for the VMs to live on if you're short of space on disk 1. I am leaning toward just adding a second SSD and possibly dedicating it to my main guest with raw disk access. For data safety, IMHO nothing beats a proper backup on exte...

I am trying to setup a fast, stable VM environment. Currently I have Windows 10 and programs on a Kingston HyperX 3k 120GB SSD and storage on a WD 1TB HDD. I plan on running Windows 10 as the host and at least one distro of Linux as a guest. A bunch of different storage scenarios have been going thr...