VBoxSVC.log errors restarting paused snapshot

[JSM09A]

I've noticed a large quantity of errors in VBoxSVC.log (attached) whenever I restart a previously paused VM (saved state) and subsequently discard the state and restore the previous snapshot on power down. The majority of the errors seem to be complaining that the VM is "immutable" which I believe is always the case whenever there is saved state. Are all these errors to be expected ? Thanks, !

[scottgus1]

Though I'm not conversant with the source code so as to give explanations for these errors, it is common to have lots of errors in the VboxSVC.log. Most likely because the service is trying to do something to check on the VMs that the VM can't do just then.

The big question is: is your VM acting strangely? Or is it acting correctly? If correctly, the errors can be ignored.

[fth0]

FWIW, the error messages of type VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE with text "The machine is not mutable" started occurring inflationary with VirtualBox 7.0, and I see them in my working setups, too. A few months ago, I consulted the VirtualBox source code, only to see that there were a lot of potential causes, so one would have to either debug VirtualBox or to experiment a lot to find the real cause. You can ignore those log messages from my POV.

[JSM09A]

Thanks for the very prompt and helpful replies. As per scottgus1's question, yes, the VM appears to be acting correctly ... so I will ignore the frequent error messages and hope for a little less "noise" in some future release.