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hi
After installing opensuse 64 bit in virtualbox, I took a snapshot 'Firstboot' and also cloned it.

Cloned machine always boots in emergency mode. How I can fix that?

Virtualbox - 4.2.18 r88780
Host Win 7 64 bit

Thanks

You cloned the VM latest state using the GUI, right?

Check the boot script and make sure it isn't identifying the boot drive by disk UUID, as that changes when the VM is cloned.

Thanks for reply.

Just to test if it is opensuse issue or virtualbox. I created another VMs using ubuntu64 bit desktop and server editions . they booted normal from cloned machine.
Can it be opensuse issue?

Thanks. I'll look into bootscript as well.

openregex wrote:Can it be opensuse issue?

Doesn't fit. Even if it's a bug, it's triggered by a change caused by cloning. There are precious few things changed by cloning (that being the point after all), but among those are various IDs (VM UUID, disk UUID - and MAC address provided you told it to reset the MAC address). If you did nothing else, i.e if you didn't do anything additionally to the VM recipe, then one of those things provokes the problem. My money is on the disk UUID change causing a problem with booting, or maybe with LVM or something else that you used in the VM but haven't mentioned.

All of this is assuming that you cloned the VM in the obvious way (right click VM, select "Clone"), and are not using that word to describe a novel procedure of your own. You haven't answered my question on that.

Hi
Yeah I cloned machine the normal way and it was default opensuse install. no customization to disk etc.
I have tried fedora as well and it is working fine.

I found https://github.com/fnichol/wiki-notes/w ... ing-issues . I haven't tried yet as my laptop is home today but will try to do it when I reach home.

Thanks

openregex wrote:I found https://github.com/fnichol/wiki-notes/w ... ing-issues.

Yes, this seems to be precisely the issue I referred to in my first post.