[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#600177: virtualbox-ose: out of disk while merging a snapshot destroys the disk image

[Adam Borowski]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:22:28PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:26:45PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > If you elect to merge the current state of a differentiating disk image into
> > the base ("deleting a snapshot") and run out of disk space on the host
> > filesystem while merging, the resulting image will be corrupted.
> > ...
> 
> Could you please try the same with 3.2.10-dfsg-1 from unstable? I wonder if
> this is the same as http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7498 which might have
> already been fixed.

I tested a couple of scenarios, and indeed, 3.2.10 works just fine.

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