I am using Virtual Box to create a virtual machine with Arch Linux installed. I use the virtual machine for my own projects: I have all my projects data in this virtual machine so I easily can change from OS or physical computer and instantly have all data available. In this virtual machine, I have installed GitLab, a backup system, SMTP, and Samba, among others.
The virtual machine has two SATA virtual hard drives:
Whether I use my Ubuntu to work with the virtual machine, accessing my files from samba, everything is performing perfectly. The problem comes when I use Windows, after shutting down my machine properly (see bash command for this below) the odds are I get a vmdk header corrupted. Two out of three times I try to shutdown this problem appears in Windows, I didn't experienced the problem In Ubuntu yet.
This is the command I use for shutting down my Arch, safe_shutdown.sh
:
systemctl stop smbd
umount /mnt/projects
systemctl poweroff
I've tried to shut down the machine from VirtualBox, to only use systemctl poweroff
, to use ACPI shutdown, to close all processes from task manager, to disconnect samba mapped network drive before shutdown, ... everything. It all result in the same, having my a vmdk header corrupted and having to use the repairing tool:
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -R projects.vmdk
This tool always says me that has found problems in the disk and all have been repaired. After this the machine works again without major problems, sometimes I find a corrupt file when hashing for consistency and I have to use my backups to restore those files.
I do not really know what to do now. Should I try to move my data to another virtual hard drive format? Resize my virtual hard drive? What logs should I look for?
On Windows I use the 5.1.2 r108956
VirtualBox version.
Could not open them medium '[projects.vmdk]` VMDK: inconsistency between grain
table and backup grain table in '[projects.vmdk]' (VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_HEADER).
Since I always repair my machine just after getting the error because I need to use my data constantly I can not provide only the last log but all of them. I have uploaded them to a Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzoIZrf3afiGRHo0Y2U5c19OdEE?usp=sharing
[projects]
comment = projects folder
path = /mnt/projects
available = yes
guest ok = no
read only = no
writable = yes
valid users = archuser
write list = archuser
browseable = yes
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
public = yes
Try to use virtualbox 4.x.x version. Scan your drive for bad sectors with fsck
and badsectors
. You might have compatibility issues or a corrupted file system.