ViirtualBox + cpio problems

[Ivan Voras]

On 03/16/10 17:22, Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote:
> Hello to everyone here,
>
> I'd like to share with you some strange problem I encountered recently.
>
> I wanted to test procedure for server upgrade. So I decided to perform
> such test using VirtualBox software. First I wanted to make some basic
> tests, I installed fresh 8.0-REL, everything seemed to work fine, up to
> the point I ran (with separate virtual drive mounted under /mnt):
>
> cd /
> find -x ./ | cpio -o | (cd /mnt; cpio -i)
>
> cpio threw error messages 'cannot create file', some files were restored
> correctly, some were corrupted. I performed similiar test several times,
> with errors every time.
>
> Has anybody got any clue what was wrong? Is it a known issue? Is there
> any configuration option to fix it?

Does the virtual machine have more than one CPU?