Discuss the 5.1.24 release

[klaus]

Discuss the 5.1.24 release here.
You can download the release here.

[JustSpiffy]

All,

Just upgraded to virtual box 5.1.24. Host is Ubuntu 14.04 x64. After starting virtual box, I am told extension are out dated (5.1.22), and I allow it to download new extensions.

Download seems to succeed, but then during "Verification" I get the following error message:

The network operation failed with the following error:
During network request: Url not found on the server.]

Manual installation (downloading files manually) has no problems.

Hope this helps!

[smithlar]

The checksum files are missing from the web site "download" page. (SHA256, MD5).
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

[klaus]

Fixed.

[bjh]

I've just installed this release, including updating the guest additions and my Win7-64 guest's Host Only networking stopped working. The host is Linux Mint 18.2 64 bit (4.10.0-26-generic kernel).
I found that the Linux network device, vboxnet0, existed but wasn't "up", even after a full system reboot. I was able to bring it up manually with "sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 up".
On the guest, I found that the network interface was now auto-configuring to have IP 169.254.80.150 instead of the expected 192.168.56.101. If I configure it manually to have the expected address it starts working again.

[socratis]

On the guest, I found that the network interface was now auto-configuring to have IP 169.254.80.150 instead of the expected 192.168.56.101. If I configure it manually to have the expected address it starts working again.

169.254.*.* is a self-assigned IP address in the case that a DHCP server is not found. Since your HostOnly network is not available, there is no DHCP server to hand out an address, that is to be expected.

[bjh]

Ok, so that means the DHCP server isn't active after I manually brought vboxnet0 up. Not too surprising. The question is, why doesn't it come up automatically like it used to?

[socratis]

There are three reports so far from users that are running headless VMs where the process eats all the available RAM on the host (memory leak?). See 1) viewtopic.php?f=11&t=83860 and 2) viewtopic.php?f=6&t=83855

Edit: This seems to have been addressed in test builds ≥ 117099. See viewtopic.php?f=6&t=83855

[ceejayemm]

I have been using VirtualBox for a num ber of years without any major problems however I have just upgraded from VBox 5.1.22 on Windows 8.1 host to 5.1.24, installing the new Extension Pack as well. Rebooted PC as requested by installer. On restart when I try to run an existing Win7 guest I get:

The virtual machine 'Win7 64 bit SP1' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1). More details may be available in 'G:\VirtualBox\Win7 64 bit SP1\Logs\VBoxHardening.log'.


Result Code:
E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component:
MachineWrap
Interface:
IMachine {b2547866-a0a1-4391-8b86-6952d82efaa0}


and in G:\VirtualBox\Win7 64 bit SP1\Logs\VBoxHardening.log:

20ac.18dc: New simple heap: #1 0000000000b90000 LB 0x400000 (for 1757184 allocation)
20ac.18dc: supR3HardenedWinInitAppBin(0x0): '\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox'
20ac.18dc: System32: \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32
20ac.18dc: WinSxS: \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\WinSxS
20ac.18dc: KnownDllPath: C:\Windows\system32
20ac.18dc: supR3HardenedVmProcessInit: Opening vboxdrv stub...
20ac.18dc: Error opening VBoxDrvStub: STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
20ac.18dc: supR3HardenedWinReadErrorInfoDevice: NtCreateFile -> 0xc0000034
20ac.18dc: Error -101 in supR3HardenedWinReSpawn! (enmWhat=3)
20ac.18dc: NtCreateFile(\Device\VBoxDrvStub) failed: 0xc0000034 STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND (0 retries)

Driver is probably stuck stopping/starting. Try 'sc.exe query vboxdrv' to get more information about its state. Rebooting may actually help.
20a4.1c9c: supR3HardenedWinCheckChild: enmRequest=2 rc=-101 enmWhat=3 supR3HardenedWinReSpawn: NtCreateFile(\Device\VBoxDrvStub) failed: 0xc0000034 STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND (0 retries)

Driver is probably stuck stopping/starting. Try 'sc.exe query vboxdrv' to get more information about its state. Rebooting may actually help.
20a4.1c9c: Error -101 in supR3HardenedWinReSpawn! (enmWhat=3)
20a4.1c9c: NtCreateFile(\Device\VBoxDrvStub) failed: 0xc0000034 STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND (0 retries)

Driver is probably stuck stopping/starting. Try 'sc.exe query vboxdrv' to get more information about its state. Rebooting may actually help.

I have checked and there is no 'vboxdrv' service installed on the host machine:

C:\Windows\system32>sc query vboxdrv
[SC] EnumQueryServicesStatus:OpenService FAILED 1060:

The specified service does not exist as an installed service.


C:\Windows\system32>

How do I get back to a working VirtualBox installation please ?

Thanks

Chris

[ceejayemm]

Please ignore my previous post. I thought I had run the installer 'As Administrator' but it seems that I may not have done so. I have rerun the installer 'As Administrator' and repaired the installation. This seems to have fixed my problem with VirtualBox 5.1.24 and it seems to be working normally.

Sorry.

Chris

[mingle]

The issue of two entries for the VB guest window appearing in the taskbar on Linux Hosts (I'm using LM 18.2 64-bit) seems to be back:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68890

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=69908

Mike.

[socratis]

The issue of two entries for the VB guest window appearing in the taskbar on Linux Hosts (I'm using LM 18.2 64-bit) seems to be back:

Is that a regression? Was it working with 5.1.22? Because the two threads you linked to are quite old.

[mingle]

The issue of two entries for the VB guest window appearing in the taskbar on Linux Hosts (I'm using LM 18.2 64-bit) seems to be back:

Is that a regression? Was it working with 5.1.22? Because the two threads you linked to are quite old.

I'd say regression - it's been fine since 5.0.4 (I believe that's where it was fixed - haven't browsed those older threads completely)

Cheers,

Mike.

[white horse]

AMD64 installer for Ubuntu 17.04 shows as version 5.1.22, not 5.1.24, in the installer:

Screenshot from 2017-07-20 14-23-36.png (40.67 KiB) Viewed 5500 times

[socratis]

@"white horse"
Did you actually get the 5.1.24 installer? If so, where from? Remember that the only one that's supported here is the one from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads not from the distro.