1) where does your copy of VirtualBox come from (Ubuntu or VirtualBox.org).
I installed directly from virtualbox.org. I don't use the VirtualBox OSE package from the Ubuntu repos because the OSE version doesn't support a few things (like USB for example).
2) You say that you upgraded Ubuntu, did you see anything odd during the upgrade?
I didn't necessarily upgrade Ubuntu. I was previously running Ubuntu 10.10 on this machine. What I did was to shrink that partition to half its size with gparted, created a new partition in that space and then installed 11.04 on that new partition. I then installed VirtualBox 4.0.6 on Ubuntu 11.04, copied over the bmayes-win7vm.vdi file, and created a new VM using that image as the disk. I haven't had any problems the past few weeks with this VM. I still have the 10.10 partition which I suppose I could boot up and see if the VM still works there...
3) Same with VirtualBox anything seem out of the ordinary?
A day or two ago I upgraded from VirtualBox 4.0.6 to 4.0.8 and I feel like that is when things started going wrong. I didn't notice anything odd during the upgrade -- just ran dpkg -i on the .deb file and everything seemed fine (at first).
4) Can you post the last log file that shows you shutting down the guest (as an attachment)?
See attached.
5) Post the permissions of the folder that has VirtualBox VMs.
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VirtualBox VMs/:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 4 bmayes bmayes 4096 2011-05-20 11:47 bmayes-win7vm
drwxr-xr-x 4 bmayes bmayes 4096 2011-05-11 14:38 Ubuntu64
drwxr-xr-x 4 bmayes bmayes 4096 2011-05-20 11:23 WinXP
VirtualBox VMs/bmayes-win7vm:
total 28969240
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 11304 2011-05-20 11:47 bmayes-win7vm.vbox
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 11235 2011-05-20 11:47 bmayes-win7vm.vbox-prev
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 29664464896 2011-05-20 11:47 bmayes-win7vm.vdi
drwxr-xr-x 2 bmayes bmayes 4096 2011-05-20 11:44 Logs
drwxr-xr-x 2 bmayes bmayes 4096 2011-05-19 17:51 Snapshots
VirtualBox VMs/bmayes-win7vm/Logs:
total 304
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 77759 2011-05-20 11:47 VBox.log
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 78747 2011-05-20 10:35 VBox.log.1
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 72956 2011-05-20 10:24 VBox.log.2
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 77595 2011-05-19 17:51 VBox.log.3
VirtualBox VMs/bmayes-win7vm/Snapshots:
total 971920
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 995238912 2011-05-19 17:51 {bc9b0c96-af74-47f8-a8a6-47014e1e2e61}.sav
VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu64:
total 5625072
drwxr-xr-x 2 bmayes bmayes 4096 2011-05-11 14:38 Logs
drwxr-xr-x 2 bmayes bmayes 4096 2011-04-19 12:45 Snapshots
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 8583 2011-05-11 14:38 Ubuntu64.vbox
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 17480 2011-04-26 12:44 Ubuntu64.vbox.old
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 8515 2011-05-11 14:38 Ubuntu64.vbox-prev
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 17480 2011-04-26 12:44 Ubuntu64.vbox-prev.old
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 5759995904 2011-05-11 14:38 Ubuntu64.vdi
VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu64/Logs:
total 320
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 78600 2011-05-11 14:38 VBox.log
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 79450 2011-04-26 12:44 VBox.log.1
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 79538 2011-04-26 11:25 VBox.log.2
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 79343 2011-04-21 13:13 VBox.log.3
VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu64/Snapshots:
total 2842692
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 725506708 2011-04-11 14:38 {5b799dec-bc5e-4aea-83c0-ede1a532688d}.sav
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 2185400320 2011-04-26 12:44 {bd662df3-164b-4c43-ae64-9e58e59efdc8}.vdi
VirtualBox VMs/WinXP:
total 5634208
drwxr-xr-x 2 bmayes bmayes 4096 2011-05-20 10:57 Logs
drwxr-xr-x 2 bmayes bmayes 4096 2011-05-20 11:23 Snapshots
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 11898 2011-05-20 11:23 WinXP.vbox
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 11898 2011-05-20 11:23 WinXP.vbox-prev
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 5769392128 2011-05-20 11:23 WinXP.vdi
VirtualBox VMs/WinXP/Logs:
total 300
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 75424 2011-05-20 11:23 VBox.log
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 73527 2011-05-20 10:43 VBox.log.1
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 74761 2011-05-20 10:38 VBox.log.2
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 75446 2011-05-19 18:09 VBox.log.3
VirtualBox VMs/WinXP/Snapshots:
total 501596
-rw------- 1 bmayes bmayes 513627382 2011-05-20 11:23 {5326fe88-a2f8-4239-b4d2-df70ac1ddcae}.sav
6) Are you still in the vboxuser group (verify this please)
Sure am:
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$ id
uid=1000(bmayes) gid=1000(bmayes) groups=1000(bmayes),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),112(lpadmin),120(admin),122(sambashare),124(vboxusers)