How do you pwn all your users at once? You suggest they upgrade, then laugh at them!

So suppose you are running some virtual machines in Oracle's VirtualBox. And suppose you are on version 4.3.x. And one day comes when VirtualBox pops up a dialog that niggardly informs you that a new version is available and you should upgrade.

And you do!

And once you do, you are no longer able to start any machines. None at all. They all just display a highly technical message box that says nothing more than something like "Error code 1, unable to start VM".

And only after trying just about anything in universe and downgrading all the way back to the old version, you realize that it works. Get it? New version does not work, old version works. So where would any reasonable person go in this predicament? To the manufacturer's web site, of course! www.virtualbox.org

And over there, deep in the forum threads about the countless bugs that users created, you will find a mention of "hardening". What is that and why did it whack you over the head? more...

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