[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Read Only File-system

[Rick Scott]

(Joseph Lewis:)
> I'm trying to keep snapshots of my Evergreen development environment in
> VirtualBox, but whenever I take one then restore it, I get a read-only fs;
> any ideas?

Hi Joe,

Is your host (non-virtual) machine using an ext4 filesystem, by chance?
I had serious problems with the VMs' filesystems getting corrupted when
running VirtualBox from an ext4 disk.  None of the configuration changes
mentioned in the various VirtualBox support forums seemed to help.
Finally I gave up and created an ext3 filesystem just for my ~/.VirtualBox
directory, which solved the problem.  VirtualBox just doesn't seem to
like ext4's approach to handling disk I/O at all.




Cheers,
Rick
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