VBox vm running ubuntu-22.04 host ubuntu-21.10

[hput]

Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> writes:

> On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:47:47 -0500, hput via ubuntu-users wrote:
>>From there it sits with the Xubuntu logo and a spinning something
>>... eternally.
>
> Hi,
>
> does the Esc-key work? IOW after pushing Esc, do you see startup
> messages? If so, what messages do you see?
>
>>When it was working the Vbox vm was running zfs and had a 9 disk raidz2
>>pool setup.
>
> The guest, the host, both? Not that I have any knowledge about zfs and
> raid, but maybe it's useful to mention what virtual storage is used.
> VDI, something else, a special image write mode?

Both host and guest are running ubuntu with the zfs option

I use the Vbox *.vdi disks And the snapshotting system is `sanoid'
which is pretty popular these days.  Also on top of snapshots on both
host and guest, the guest was running rsnapshot against the main os
and itself... thats why I had all those disks setup in raidz2.



>>I'd like to recover the vm since I spent a good bit of time getting
>>it doing what I wanted done.
>
> That's what snapshots are for, assuming those are possible. If for any
> reason snapshots are impossible to do or to manage, a regular backup of
> the partition/s of the VDI or whatever else is used should be done,
> before things break.

[...]

As it turns out apparently I just had not waited long enough for the
thing to spin advertising Xubuntu, long enough.  When I went back to
meddling with it after writing the message, there it was running, and
still is.

So, it was clearly a lot longer than a boot should take and it was my
third attempt ... so I guess I shut it down too soon, must have got
over it's trouble at least enough to start and run.  Must have taken
at least a 3/4 of an hour... since I had let it set partially booted for
pretty good while before starting the OP.


Oh yes, and speaking of snapshots and backups .. that vm was running
rsnapshot against my main os for the last while.

I knew I could recover the vm from hosts snapshots (Which is also an
ubuntu zfs machine. But had hopes of something fairly simple  being
the matter.

Thanks for taking time to respond