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Hello!

At times, VBox fails to restore the saved state of a running virtual machine. This happens on Windows 2003 with VBox 2.2.4. The error message reads as follows:

Failed to start the virtual machine...

Unable to restore the virtual machine's saved state from <path to .sav
file>. It may be damaged or from an older version of VirtualBox. Please
discard the saved state before starting the virtual machine
(VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH)

Details:
Resutl Code: E_FAIL
Component: Console
Interface IConsole

This happens rarely, but is very annoying as it ruins hours of my work. Is
there anything I can do to avoid this?

Regards,
Angel Tsankov

Welcome to the forum angel.tsankov,

I have seen this when I have several snapshots saved, and yes it is annoying, but I never see this when I do not have more than 1 or at the most 2 snapshots. I suspect that this adds just enough to the saved state to be too much for VBox to handle at times. An alternative is to shutdown the VM if you have a lot of snapshots or if the VM has gotten too big from additions, programs, Etc. instead of using the saved state.