Windows 2008 R2 unstable/hangs in 3.2.0 works in 3.1.8

[jonstrabala]

In a nutshell I was trying repeatable to install Windows 2008 R2 on X86 Sun VirtualBox on a fully patched new install of Solaris. I could load it and restart the VM a few times but once I powered it off and powered it on it failed. Loaded the OS about ten time (only takes a few minutes) but it always started ending up in a permanent "black screen" when powering up the VM.

So I rolled back from VirtualBox 3.2.0 to VirtualBox 3.1.8 and it all worked fine.

Obviously there is a bug in the latest release with respect to my OS and HW (stock sun X4275 patched as of 20091223).

I used the exact same configuration for both 3.1.8 and 3.2.0 - only 3.2.0 installs restarts a few times and then it doesn't boot up any more.

#[3]: cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 5/09 s10x_u7wos_08 X86
Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 30 March 2009

#[4]: uname -a
SunOS mocrome 5.10 Generic_142901-02 i86pc i386 i86pc

#[5]: prtdiag | head -2
System Configuration: SUN MICROSYSTEMS SUN FIRE X4275 SERVER
BIOS Configuration: American Megatrends Inc. 07060215 06/19/2009

Glad I found the below post it helped me a bit - proved I wasn't crazy, this is when I decided to uninstall 3.2.0 and try 3.1.8

http://www.sysprobs.com/install-run-win ... virtualbox

[frank]

There were some related fixes in VBox 3.2.2 which was released yesterday so you might want to give the new release a try.

[jonstrabala]

Frank,

Thanks for the timely response/update, I just installed VirtualBox-3.2.2-62298-SunOS.tar.gz and all seems good with every on of my test VMs Win2K, WinXP and the "problematic" Windows 2008 R2 on X86.

Note, I did not install them from scratch (from the install CDs), rather I upgraded VBox from 3.1.8 to 3.2.2 and uninstalled and reinstalled the Guest Additions to each of the existing VMs.

Everything does seem to be very stable again.

Best Regards,

Jon