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Since upgrading to VirutalBox 3.2 I have been having problems while working with snapshots i.e. deleting/merging, restoring snapshots hangs. The symptoms appears to affect Linux VMs that had existing snapshots before upgrading to 3.2 - even if the operation was performed on a post 3.2 snapshot.

My first issue occurred while trying to delete snapshots from a Enterprise Linux 5.4 64-bit VM while it was in a paused state. After 10-12 hrs had elapsed the dialog box still had 'deleting snapshot...'. The snapshots were taken before upgrading to 3.2. I eventually had to kill virtualbox to regain control. Needless to say the VM would not start after that.
The second time occurred while trying to restore a 3.2 snapshot that had existing parent 3.1.8 snapshots present. This time no dialog box was shown...just the endless color wheel. A look at my console log showed the following messages:

5/30/10 12:03:54 PM VirtualBoxVM[60070] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x17f280 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
5/30/10 12:05:27 PM VirtualBoxVM[60077] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x13e583a0 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
5/30/10 12:13:03 PM VirtualBoxVM[60110] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x26759c0 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking

I am a very technical user since I work in the IT field and have had training in programming. Without having in depth knowledge of the VirtualBox inner workings it does look like there are memory leaks in VirtualBox though.

Here is my previous post about the first issue - http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 37#p139033