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Hey all,
Recently upgraded to 1.6.2. Thanks for the good work fixing networking VBox Team!

I have an ubuntu host (laptop) and centos and Win32 guest OSs. The CentOS guest has to be 'hard reset' (not rebooted) every day as it starts spewing ext3 journaling problems. This issue is always correlated with the laptop going into sleepy mode during the night.

Is anyone else seeing this issue? I would like to configure virtual box to 'Pause' the guest OSs when the laptop goes into sleepy modes.

I am fairly confident that it's not a bad VM image. It happened in 1.6.0 and a took an older backup VMDK file and used it for the 1.6.2 install. It worked perfectly under VMWare. So this points to an issue in VBox.

Neal

Does the laptop go to suspend while at least one VM is running? It is quite possible that this does not work properly.

Have a look at the script /etc/init.d/vboxdrv. It contains some code to suspend all running VMs before shutting down. This code perhaps needs some adaptation and you have to insert /etc/init.d/vboxdrv stop_vms at the correct location but it might work.