Snapshot troubles...
Posted: 9. Jun 2011, 11:24
I have a situation that popped up last night that's got me all confused...
Background info. I'm running VB 3.0.12 (I know it's old - there's a reason for it!) on Win7 x64. I use VirtualBox primarily for the management of my mp3 players (I have an iPod and a couple different Zunes - and they don't all play well together). Anyway, last night I kept losing network connectivity on my VMs. At the time, it was my Zune VM that was giving me problems.
Anyway, getting frustrated with that, I switched to my iPod VM, and eventually it started giving me network connectivity problems as well. Inside the machine it looked fine. Network card there, cable "connected", etc. If I release and renew the DHCP, though, it would give an error saying unable to contact DHCP server. If I set a static IP, it coudln't talk on the network. I'm using Bridged networking...
I got no errors at any time from VB itself. Other than the fact that it wasn't working, everything seemed to be correct. This is the first time I've had this problem...
Now, finally the reason for this post. My Zune machine had a snapshot made in April. I have since used the machine, so there were things done SINCE that snapshot was taken. In my troubleshooting tonight, I reverted back to the April snapshot, wondering if it was a setting in the guest os causing my problem (this was before I switched to my iPod machine and found out that it, too, had issues)... It wasn't. But now I wonder if I can re-revert it back to how it was before I reverted back to the snapshot?
Unless I'm reading this wrong, it seems that all of the information is there somewhere. The snapshot directory for that machine has a bunch of VDI and VMDK files, and two SAV files in it. But I can't figure out how to get it back to the way it was before I reverted back.
Is this possible?
Background info. I'm running VB 3.0.12 (I know it's old - there's a reason for it!) on Win7 x64. I use VirtualBox primarily for the management of my mp3 players (I have an iPod and a couple different Zunes - and they don't all play well together). Anyway, last night I kept losing network connectivity on my VMs. At the time, it was my Zune VM that was giving me problems.
Anyway, getting frustrated with that, I switched to my iPod VM, and eventually it started giving me network connectivity problems as well. Inside the machine it looked fine. Network card there, cable "connected", etc. If I release and renew the DHCP, though, it would give an error saying unable to contact DHCP server. If I set a static IP, it coudln't talk on the network. I'm using Bridged networking...
I got no errors at any time from VB itself. Other than the fact that it wasn't working, everything seemed to be correct. This is the first time I've had this problem...
Now, finally the reason for this post. My Zune machine had a snapshot made in April. I have since used the machine, so there were things done SINCE that snapshot was taken. In my troubleshooting tonight, I reverted back to the April snapshot, wondering if it was a setting in the guest os causing my problem (this was before I switched to my iPod machine and found out that it, too, had issues)... It wasn't. But now I wonder if I can re-revert it back to how it was before I reverted back to the snapshot?
Unless I'm reading this wrong, it seems that all of the information is there somewhere. The snapshot directory for that machine has a bunch of VDI and VMDK files, and two SAV files in it. But I can't figure out how to get it back to the way it was before I reverted back.
Is this possible?