Kali VM not Saving

[negafin]

I am running Kali on a Virtual Box VM. everything runs, works, and looks great, except one little tid bit. When ever i power down, it whips the drive, and boots a freshy when i get back in. Save state works if i specifically utilize save state, but if i send the shutdown signal or power off, when it reboots, i no longer have any of the files, folders, programs, or anything that i put on there. any ideas?

[blackMORE]

Check if the virtual disk files (physical disk in host OS i.e. Windoze) .. are not read only. Also, which file format you selected on VBox? Stick with the default disk file format.

[wurmt0ngue]

Have you installed it to the virtual hard disk, then ejected the ISO (to make sure you arent just live booting the iso over and over)?

Call me crazy but it sounds like that's whats going on to me.