On 27/08/2012 08:42 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> FWIW, I use VirtualBox on Linux pretty much daily, never have stability
> problems at all.

You never had it pop up and say "This process has performed an illegal 
operation and must be terminated. Do you wish to send an error report"? 
(Oh, well, I guess you wouldn't be seeing a Windows-specific error 
message on Linux... But you get what I'm saying.)

You never had a VM working perfectly, and then the next day VirtualBox 
utterly /refuses/ to start that VM? (Like, you click "start", and either 
nothing happens or VirtualBox instantly crashes.)

You never had it refuse to delete a snapshot for no defined reason? 
(E.g., you have a VM powered down, you take a snapshot, realise you 
wanted to do something first, go to delete the snapshot you just made, 
and it says "sorry, I can't do that Dave".)

> I'm also not sure what you  mean by "manag[ing] disks and VMs separately"
> - the GUI that I use (which is the default GUI AFAIK) doesn't do that.

When you create a VM, it asks to create a virtual disk. (Which isn't 
surprising; VMware does this also.) But it seems to want to put all the 
VM files in one place, and all the virtual disk files in another place. 
And it asks me if I want to reuse one of my existing disk files. (Why 
would I *ever* want to do that??) And when I delete a VM, this does 
/not/ delete the disk image files with it. I have to manually do that 
from the disk management window.

Maybe the GUI is completely different on Linux or something. But on 
Windows, you can't even edit a snapshot description while the VM it 
belongs to is running. (I can understand, from a technical perspective, 
how that could end up not working. What I can't figure out is why the 
heck nobody has fixed this. It can't be that damned hard...)

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