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Walter Heck  
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 More options Aug 15 2012, 1:47 pm
From: Walter Heck <walterh...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:47:44 +0800
Local: Wed, Aug 15 2012 1:47 pm
Subject: Re: [vagrant-up] Avoiding OSX crashes with Virtualbox
I'd be more then interested in decent solutions here too. I curse
every time I do a vagrant destroy without thinking about it and am
then presented with the lock screen a few seconds later with a ton of
apps open.

cheers,

Walter

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Jay Janssen <jay.jans...@percona.com> wrote:
> I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I know from the off-hand comment
> Mitchell made at his OSCON presentation that others experience crashes from
> virtualbox on OSX.  In particular, I seem to be susceptible to them when I
> do a 'vagrant halt' or 'vagrant suspend'.  I am also working with multiple
> vagrant nodes (3).  Guest OS is Centos 6.3 minimal I pulled from
> vagrantbox.es

> Googling the topic reveals a ton of host OS crash bugs in Virtualbox over
> the years, but no clear and obvious fixes.

> Has anyone found any magic incantations (I'm thinking virtualbox settings
> for the guest VMs) to help alleviate these kinds of issues?

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