VMs freezing intermittently

[Ketzal]

I tried the new 2.1.2 version this morning. The bug is still there. Error log changed a little :
00:01:47.403 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005) aIID={fd443ec1-0006-4f5b-9282-d72760a66916} aComponent={Mouse} aText={Could not send the mouse event to the virtual
mouse (VERR_PDM_NO_QUEUE_ITEMS)} aWarning=false, preserve=false
00:01:47.411 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005) aIID={fd443ec1-0006-4f5b-9282-d72760a66916} aComponent={Mouse} aText={Could not send the mouse event to the virtual
mouse (VERR_PDM_NO_QUEUE_ITEMS)} aWarning=false, preserve=false
00:01:47.419 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005) aIID={fd443ec1-0006-4f5b-9282-d72760a66916} aComponent={Mouse} aText={Could not send the mouse event to the virtual
mouse (VERR_PDM_NO_QUEUE_ITEMS)} aWarning=false, preserve=false

Still same behavior, freeze every 2-3s for about 5s, dumps a lot of 'mouse error' and resume working a couple of seconds.

[linuxlover]

Hi,
I have the similar problem. I am running VB 2.2 on Ubuntu 8.1, using Centos 5.2 and XP as clients. The Centos box will sometimes hang; no responses to mouse, keyboard and ssh. And the log file constantly generate records similar to the following:
"ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005) aIID={fd443ec1-0006-4f5b-9282-d72760a66916} aComponent={Mouse} aText={Could not send the mouse event to the virtual mouse (VERR_PDM_NO_QUEUE_ITEMS)} aWarning=false, preserve=false", and also another record complaining the keyboard. But XP box is running well.
Then I disabled ACPI and IO APIC on Centos and then everything seems to be OK since then. You guys may try.
However, I still have another problem; if I bring up Centos first, then no problem, but if I bring up XP first, then my Centos box will have trouble getting the IP from DHCP, which is using host interface(now bridge network) and eth0 will be disabled. I have to issue 'network restart'(maybe several times) to bring eth0 up.
Everything else seemed to be so far so good. Anyway, VirtualBox is easy to use and stable

[jamie.krug]

I have constant intermittent mouse freezes in all guest OSes. I've read countless forum posts and bug reports of very similar problems and numerous proposed solutions, but none seem to work for me.

There are errors like this in logs for each VM:
00:05:04.442 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005) aIID={7c0f2eae-f92d-498c-b802-e1a3763774dc} aComponent={Mouse} aText={Could not send the mouse event to the virtual mouse (VERR_PDM_NO_QUEUE_ITEMS)} aWarning=false, preserve=false
00:07:36.579 TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a 60 055 511 926 ns lag; new total: 180 211 115 250 ns

I've tried the "nohz=off" kernal trick and the VBox option "force_async_tsc=1" trick (as suggested here and here). I've tried with IO APIC enabled and disabled (as suggested here). I've tried switching my network adapter type from "PCnet-FAST III" to "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop" as numerous threads have mentioned. I've tried a variety of memory allocations, as numerous threads have suggested (keeping well below half the host's physical RAM). None of these proposed solutions have worked for me.

I would be very grateful if someone could help me figure this out! Here's all the information I could think to gather, for any kind soul that might be able to assist...

Host:
Dell vostro 1510 laptop, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM
Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit
VirtualBox 3.1.2 r56127

Guest VMs:
Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop 32-bit
Windows XP Professional 32-bit

I'm attaching the "showvminfo" output for each guest VM, as well as a recent log for each guest VM.