Discuss the 5.0 release

[michaln]

I just installed the 5.0 release of VirtualBox....

Please provide the exact revision. This sounds exactly like a problem that was fixed before the 5.0 release.

[edjpjones]

I will now respond about my own post....

The 5.0 version I downloaded from the Downloads page yesterday turned out to be RC3... not the final release.

The release that is there now seems to work fine.

[jorgensen]

Dare I?

Tried it, and until now no problem running previous guests, and especially the new 'Acceleration' option seems to improve the performance.
Tried a beta version, but had severe problems creating a new guest, but expect that have been solved.
Crossing all my fingers, I do not have to revert to a previous version.
Before upgrade, take a copy of the .VirtualBox folder in your User folder and Guest profiles to be upgraded, because there are new features that cannot be reverted with a standard downgrade.

[Marko73]

Tried it and promptly went back to 4.3.12.

Can't start any VM on 5.0.0-101573, every attempt fails with a message reading "Unable to load R3 module". Googling suggests this problem has been around for a while now (this is the first upgrade I've done since 4.3.12) so one would have thought it would be fixed by now.

Host system is Windows 7 x64, SP1, 8GB RAM, Athlon II X4 635, NVidia GTX 460.

[Kontrollfreak]

I've got a numpad issue. Every time I start a VM my numpad gets deactivated (on the host).

Using VirtualBox 5.0.0 r101573 under Windows 7 SP1 x64

[BrianG61UK]

Am I supposed to be able to enable USB 3 support for my 32 bit Windows 7 VM running on a 64 bit Windows 7 host?
Nothing I do seems able to persuade the VM to install a driver for the virtual USB hardware.

[Perryg]

Am I supposed to be able to enable USB 3 support for my 32 bit Windows 7 VM running on a 64 bit Windows 7 host?
Nothing I do seems able to persuade the VM to install a driver for the virtual USB hardware.

You need to download and install the xHCI drivers for Windows manually from Intel.

[BrianG61UK]

Am I supposed to be able to enable USB 3 support for my 32 bit Windows 7 VM running on a 64 bit Windows 7 host?
Nothing I do seems able to persuade the VM to install a driver for the virtual USB hardware.

You need to download and install the xHCI drivers for Windows manually from Intel.

For what chipset?

[Perryg]

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/u ... 034342.htm

[BrianG61UK]

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/u ... 034342.htm

I have to find out myself?
Nobody knows which chipset Oracle chose to emulate?

[Perryg]

I believe it depends on the chipset the host uses. I actually don't know for sure since I don't do windows that much. Just ran the test in the guest and there you have it.
That said you are more than welcome to wait for a DEV to drop by.

[BrianG61UK]

I believe it depends on the chipset the host uses. I actually don't know for sure since I don't do windows that much. Just ran the test in the guest and there you have it.
That said you are more than welcome to wait for a DEV to drop by.

The test said I have series 6 chipset -- a chipset before USB 3.
Presumably this is because the emulated hardware is a weird mixture of devices you'd never see with real hardware.

The hardware ID of the unknown device seems to match a series 7 USB 3 device and indeed the series 7 xHCI drivers seem to install okay.

The host is Series 8 (Z87) based.

But I think I'm going to restore a backup and continue with 4.3.28 because 5.0.0 seems to have appallingly inefficient video card emulation.
Just opening up the MSN home page in IE in the VM brings it to it's knees and I'm pretty certain it wasn't that bad before.

[susu.exp]

VB 5.0 Regressions...


VirtualBox-5.0.0-101573-Win
Win 8.1 host
Debian guest
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GAs showed error in installation:
1st time said it could not locate headers, which were installed.
Reattempt produced:

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*** Error in `systemctl': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x00007f1ab2a72b70 ***

Guest file manager times out on Windows share file transfer from/to any host after 65kb. Samba broken. SSH broken as well, connect times out.
In other IP stack investigation, Test-ipv6 shows glitch in Large Packet Test, guest only scores 7/10 (down from 10/10 same guest VB 4.3.*).

Guest audio has to be set to ach97, intel hd and soundblaster options no longer work. Somewhat covered in this thread already.

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Rollback to VB 4.3.30 solves Samba issue and audio issue.
Systemd error message on GA install remains after rollback to VB 4.3.30

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Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done.

[Marko73]

OK, more googling and it seems it was the hacked theme files (uxtheme.dll etc), that I was using to enable custom visual styles, that were causing the problem. Reverted to the standard windows system files and VBox 5 works now, more or less. However, whenever I start a virtual mchine, there's a pause of up to around 10 seconds with the "Starting virtual machine" progress bar stuck at 0% before anything seems to happen. This never occurred with previous versions!

[max67]

Scaled mode in 5 is not very nice compared to 4.x. I don't know a correct term but it seems like "interpolation" is disabled and near pixels are obscured by each other when scaled down. In 4.x I am able to shrink screen almost twice from original and I am still able to read the text, not in 5.x

Also when resuming Guest OS, the machine is spaming Host OS wich key events (enter key).