HAOS won't boot after unclean VM shutdown

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I’m running the standard HAOS VM using VirtualBox on a Mac Mini host. Today the host crashed with a kernel panic. On restart, the HAOS VM went through a rapid repeating loop of start-up, fail to start Docker, shut-down, repeat. After a while it just stopped on an “Autoboot” prompt.

I have a VM snapshot from a week ago, but I’ve made a lot of configuration changes since then that I don’t want to lose. How can I fix this, or at least copy out my HA configs before resetting to the last VM snapshot?

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You should be able to extract your configuration files from the vdi virtual disk file. Google search (or duckduckgo) is your friend.