So I am now quite happy with the VM and OS installation.

I had installed the Bitcoin client last night and left it to run all night to download block chain.

When I woke up it had crashed, or, at least was not running.

When I attempted to restart both the GUI and console versions I got the following error:

EXCEPTION: NSt8ios_base7failureE ReadCompactSize():size too large bitcoin in AppInit()

Searches on this error did not reveal much. I was wondering if anyone had any insight on the possible causes of this exception?

The only changes I had made before I began the block download, was to "mkdir ~/.bitcoin" and "echo 'keypool=300' > ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"

I will be definitely backing up my wallet file separately from the VM once this secure wallet system actually holds Bitcoins, but regardless, would really feel much more confident if I could figure out these types of bugs beforehand.

Thanks,

Johnny