New VM won't let me take snapshots

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Industrial
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New VM won't let me take snapshots

Post by Industrial »

It just says "failed to create snapshot" without an error. What's up?

edit: it lets me take snapshots if there's no VDI attached but that sort of defeats the point.
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Re: New VM won't let me take snapshots

Post by noteirak »

Maybe a screenshot would help here.
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Re: New VM won't let me take snapshots

Post by mpack »

...along with all other normally requested diagnostic info.
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Re: New VM won't let me take snapshots

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There was no error message so I didnt think a screenshot would mean anything. As for other diagnostic info, what is needed again? the contents of the .vbox?
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Re: New VM won't let me take snapshots

Post by Industrial »

Oh it was because I had the VDI attached to another VM. Error message should say so though.
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