Not enough swap space to hibernate?

Question

It seems that I have enough though; maybe it's not automatic swap mounting?

Any help on getting hibernate working is appreciated.

Problem

What is not hibernating the host or the virtualbox guest ? How much RAM do you have ? — Panther, Dec 12 '11 at 18:48
possible duplicate of How do I add more swap easily so that I can hibernate my laptop? — Bruno Pereira, Dec 12 '11 at 18:52
This is not a dupe to the swap question as here a virtual machine needs to be hibernated. — Takkat, Dec 12 '11 at 21:00

Takkat · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-12T21:16:12.370

It is not a good idea to hibernate your Virtual Box virtual machine to the virtual disk swap. The appropriate way to achieve hibernation is to close your virtual machine with Machine -> Close (or just close the virtual machine window):

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Choose "Save the machine state" for "hibernating" to a file on your host partition.

You can also do this from command line on the host with the following command:

VBoxManage controlvm <name> savestate

Replace <name> by the name of your VM.

Not enough swap space to hibernate?

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