[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
So, Oracle finally got around to updating VBox again and I was keen to upgrade as some of my test VMs shadow bleeding edge distros like Rawhide and Sid ship with Xorg server 1.15, which was unsupported in the previous 4.3.6 release. The good news is that now Xorg 1.15 is supported, but VBox is exhibiting some weird crashy behaviour only on specific VMs (which are known good). Even stranger, all my Windows, Solaris, BSD and the weirder exotic flavours (OS/2, Minix, ReactOS, etc) all function as normal, it's only certain Linux VMs that are crashing out, specifically Gentoo and Slackware so far. There may be more, I have a *lot* of VMs to get through testing. In both cases they start fine, bootloader is reached, kernel crash results immediately (in the VMs, not the host). Obviously I'm digging through the logfiles and working on testing more exhaustively before I start to gather up a bug report so I'm just wondering if anyone else has run into this issue yet? I appreciate it's perhaps unlikely as the suspect VBox upgrade was only released yesterday but if anyone else has 4.3.8 already installed on any host OS I'd certainly appreciate any info from other users. Just for the record, this is on an Ubuntu 13.10 64bit physical host machine running on a custom 3.12.4-pf-meowski+ kernel. I have at least tried rebooting with a standard mainline Ubuntu kernel to see if my kernel configuration shenanigans has caused the mischief but the behaviour is identical there too. "ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005)" seems to be the guilty party from the VBox logs but google doesn't have any answers in this case - the fault has come up before historically but scanning through the different forum threads it seems that people with this error had other issues (failing RAM, broken HDD) and were chiefly running on Windows hosts which is not something I am stupid enough to do. Any damage reports from other VBox users would be appreciated. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq