VirtualBox hangs irrecoverably when suspending guest and the filesystem is full

[Gonçalo Gomes]

While suspending a guest, if the suspend image fails to be saved because of insufficient space, the guest is left in irrecoverable state and must therefore be powered down the hard way.

I don't expect it to be able to suspend when the FS doesn't have enough capacity to store the image. I do expect VirtualBox not to become irrecoverable (e.g, you can't go back into the guest and ask it to shutdown cleanly via, say, guest OS shutdown commands or perhaps just leave the guest running while you are working away to free the space from the filesystem so that you can retry suspending the guest (aka "Saving state to disk".)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: virtualbox-ose 3.2.8-dfsg-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.59-generic-pae 2.6.35.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 24 13:03:10 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virtualbox-ose