Win7 guest won't remember shared folders' shortcuts

[torentash]

Windows 7 64bit on Ubuntu 9.10 host and latest VB 3.1.2.

I create shortcut of the host's shared folders, as well shortcuts of some important files from shared partitions/folders, then I restart the system and all the shortcuts are not on the desktop anymore (deleted by the system).

Firstly, I thought that this was due to an error message on the IP conflict (occurred sometimes when I have many guest in save-state mode) so I gave the Win7 guest a static IP. This didn't however help.

It seems that the only way for win7 to remember desktop shortcuts is to first log off, then log on and then restart. What's worse this works 9 put of 10 times. After that all shortcuts are gone and I have to do all the work from the scratch.

Any ideas?

[MarkCranness]

Do you use Power Down>Save machine state on the VMs with the problems and do you have your snapshot folder in a non-standard place? There is a bug where a non-standard snapshots folder causes VMs in 'Saved' state to go to 'Powered off' if you reboot the host. This might affect the desktop, which from my experience is not fully saved until the OS shutsdown.
Otherwise please 'Upload attachment' your VirtualBox.xml and machine xml files.

[torentash]

Do you use Power Down>Save machine state on the VMs with the problems and do you have your snapshot folder in a non-standard place? There is a bug where a non-standard snapshots folder causes VMs in 'Saved' state to go to 'Powered off' if you reboot the host. This might affect the desktop, which from my experience is not fully saved until the OS shutsdown.
Otherwise please 'Upload attachment' your VirtualBox.xml and machine xml files.

I close it by clicking X on the VM's window and then chooses the ''save state' option. If I however want to shutdown or reboot the guest system, I use 'shutdown' or 'restart' from the win7 menu bar.

The only non-default location is of VM's hard disks which are on another partition for the backup reason. The same is with Vistas and XPs VMs and I do not have any issues with them.

Last night I tried the above-described method of creating shortcuts then logging off/on and this morning all the shortcuts are gone (although they were not deleted immediately). It seems that they get deleted when VB rests for a couple of hours.

I've just wanted to attach -xml files when I saw that the /Machine folders contains 2 xml conf files (see pic). Is this normal?

[MarkCranness]

Win7 Ultimate x64-1.7-linux.xml is a backup that VirtualBox made the last time you upgraded VirtualBox.
Please 'Upload attachment' 'Win7 Ultimate x64.xml' and 'VirtualBox.xml'.

Probably the bug also happens when the hard disks are not in a standard place.
See : http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6027 ... and
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 27#p118025

Try "Set your hard disk folder back to the default, but create a symlink from that folder to the actual (current) folder".

A correction:

Do you use Power Down>Save machine state on the VMs with the problems and do you have your snapshot folder (or hard disk folder) in a non-standard place? There is a bug where a non-standard snapshots folder causes VMs in 'Saved' state to go to 'Powered off' if you reboot the host (or exit the VirtualBox GUI on the host). This might affect the desktop, which from my experience is not fully saved until the OS shutsdown.

[torentash]

I did the trick with symbolic links and it seems that now win7 remembers shortcuts on the desktop. If anything changes I'll let you know.

Thanks!