As you may or may not be aware, TKL appliances are built so they can be run live from the cd (runs in RAM without installing - no changes made to the HDD), much the same way as a normal Ubuntu desktop CD (or many other distros). So while the iso image remained accessable, your VM is actually booting into a 'live' environment rather than running off your installation (on your virtual HDD).
That is what Alon was aluding to when he said for you to make sure that you "boot from first harddisk". Its an option on the boot menu, along with install, and boot the CD 'live' - which is default if nothing is pressed!
Luckily you realised this before you'd done a lot of work and restarted - as you would've lost the lot!
@Alon & Liraz - Perhaps some sort of notification is needed when TKL is running live so you can easily see thats whats going on? Or is it possible to set a password such as 'live' for the live CD? I imagine that should be doable as I have seen other distros where the live user is 'guest'.
[edit] Just re-read your post - sorry, it sounds like a lot of my reply is superfluous. Anyway I'll leave it there, someone might find it useful! So, you were sure you were running off the virtual HDD. So you selected "boot from first harddisk" on the boot menu and it was still going into the live instance? Can you please just remount the iso and double check that? If it is doing that then it sounds like a bug. At least we've already found a workaround!
Ah-ha! Sounds like it was booting into the 'live' environment!
As you may or may not be aware, TKL appliances are built so they can be run live from the cd (runs in RAM without installing - no changes made to the HDD), much the same way as a normal Ubuntu desktop CD (or many other distros). So while the iso image remained accessable, your VM is actually booting into a 'live' environment rather than running off your installation (on your virtual HDD).
That is what Alon was aluding to when he said for you to make sure that you "boot from first harddisk". Its an option on the boot menu, along with install, and boot the CD 'live' - which is default if nothing is pressed!
Luckily you realised this before you'd done a lot of work and restarted - as you would've lost the lot!
@Alon & Liraz - Perhaps some sort of notification is needed when TKL is running live so you can easily see thats whats going on? Or is it possible to set a password such as 'live' for the live CD? I imagine that should be doable as I have seen other distros where the live user is 'guest'.
[edit] Just re-read your post - sorry, it sounds like a lot of my reply is superfluous. Anyway I'll leave it there, someone might find it useful! So, you were sure you were running off the virtual HDD. So you selected "boot from first harddisk" on the boot menu and it was still going into the live instance? Can you please just remount the iso and double check that? If it is doing that then it sounds like a bug. At least we've already found a workaround!