diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f5cc22596..4cf836e18 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 ## 1.2.3 (unreleased)
 
+IMPROVEMENTS:
 
+  - Better VBoxManage error detection on Windows systems. This avoids
+    some major issues where Vagrant would sometimes "lose" your VM. [GH-1669]
 
 ## 1.2.2 (April 23, 2013)
 
diff --git a/plugins/providers/virtualbox/driver/base.rb b/plugins/providers/virtualbox/driver/base.rb
index 8ec8ed194..e9267fa18 100644
--- a/plugins/providers/virtualbox/driver/base.rb
+++ b/plugins/providers/virtualbox/driver/base.rb
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ module VagrantPlugins
               # Sometimes, VBoxManage fails but doesn't actual return a non-zero
               # exit code. For this we inspect the output and determine if an error
               # occurred.
-              if r.stderr =~ /VBoxManage: error:/
+              if r.stderr =~ /VBoxManage([.a-z]+?): error:/
                 @logger.info("VBoxManage error text found, assuming error.")
                 errored = true
               end