Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

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Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

Post by ant »

Hello.

I just upgraded my ViurtualBox 7.0.0 to v7.0.2 in my updated 64-bit W10 Pro (21H2) host PC. Upgrading my 64-bit W10 Pro (21H2) and 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 guest VMs' Guest Additions kept crashing their guest VMs. I never had this problem with with v7.0's upgrade from v6.1.40. I also didn't have this problem with my new updated 64-bit W11 22H2 Home guest VM.

I attached both 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 and W10 Pro guest VMs' zipped crash logs. I already rebooted my host PC to see if that helped. Nope. I will keep this old 7.0.0 guests additions for now.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon.
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Upgrading64w7hpeSP1vbGuestAdditionsFrom7.0.0to7.0.2crashLogs.zip
Zipped crash logs when upgrading VB guest additions from v7.0.0 to v7.0.2 in 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 guest VM.
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Upgrading64w10ProVBguestAdditionsFrom7.0.0to7.0.2crashLogs.zip
Zipped crash logs when upgrading VB guest additions from v7.0.0 to v7.0.2 in 64-bit W10 Pro guest VM.
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Re: Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

Post by ant »

Interesting. I tried uninstalling the old guest additions, rebooting, and then reinstalling the newer version in my old 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 VM. No crashes. HOWEVER, a reboot was required so it rebooted, booted up, and then my VM crashed while trying to load my guest VM's desktop. :( Attached its zip crash logs. I didn't bother with my 64-bit W10 guest VM since it will most likely happen too.
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VB v7.0.2's Guest Additions crash logs after uninstalling v7.0.0 guest additions, rebooting, installing v7.0.2 guest additions, and rebooting.
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Re: Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

Post by ant »

Interesting. After the crashes during the guest additions' (installation/upgrade)s, going back to Windows show them updated and working. I think the crashes happen when the video driver is trying to work at first since I saw my guest VM window do funky stuff like resize.
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Re: Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

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Most likely the problem is caused by the new WDDM driver.
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Re: Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

Post by Felixthenet »

Two things:
first I suggest to unistall any previous versions of the guest additions, reboot and than install the new one;
second, check if into the configuratione panels you have "enable 3D acceleration" and in case, disable it, just to be able to let the GA install correctly, later you can re-enable 3D acceleration.

Note: the first time I tried to run my win10 vm's I got a black screen, nothing more... than I tried to run the activity manager (right CTRL + CANC) and I could run a new EXPLORER and et voilà... everything at his place...

Hope this could halp you, enjoy your VB
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Re: Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

Post by Raphaelu »

Hi,
disabling 3D acceleration allowed me to install the guest additions. Thanks for the hint! :)
Nevertheless I still have many graphic glitches if I reenable it. Looks very similar to the issues I had upgrading to VB 6 if I remember correctly.

Host:
██████████████████ ████████ raphael@maquinaro
██████████████████ ████████ -----------------
██████████████████ ████████ OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
██████████████████ ████████ Host: MS-7B89 1.0
████████ ████████ Kernel: 6.0.6-1-MANJARO
████████ ████████ ████████ Uptime: 43 mins
████████ ████████ ████████ Packages: 2037 (pacman), 8 (flatpak), 10 (snap)
████████ ████████ ████████ Shell: bash 5.1.16
████████ ████████ ████████ Resolution: 2560x1440
████████ ████████ ████████ DE: Plasma
████████ ████████ ████████ WM: KWin
████████ ████████ ████████ Theme: Breath2 [Plasma], Breath-Dark [GTK2/3]
████████ ████████ ████████ Icons: breath-classic-dark [Plasma], breath-classic-dark [GTK2/3]
████████ ████████ ████████ Terminal: konsole
Terminal Font: Hack 10
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (12) @ 3.600GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT
Memory: 12008MiB / 32050MiB

Guest:
Betriebsystemname Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045

Regards, Raphael
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Re: Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

Post by ant »

FYI. V7.0.4 still has this problem when I upgraded from v7.0.2. :(
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Re: Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

Post by rsk »

I'm seeing the same problem here.

On the 7.02 Extensions upgrade I did see some messages during the install, but it did install, and I was able to set the display resolution over 1600x1200 to 2560x1440 as has been working with the guests (Windows and Linux) all along.

I upgraded to VB 7.04 and this version of extensions installed also with the messages scrolling along but I was never able to get the screen resolution to go over 1600x1200.

I eventually had to uninstall the 7.04 extensions from the W10 guest and downgrade VB to 7.02 to get the display working again.

I'd like to be at 7.04 but with or without the 3d acceleration enabled, but the extensions don't seem to install correctly and allow for the higher display resolutions.

Any ideas on how to proceed or help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

Post by ant »

rsk wrote:...I eventually had to uninstall the 7.04 extensions from the W10 guest and downgrade VB to 7.02 to get the display working again.

I'd like to be at 7.04 but with or without the 3d acceleration enabled, but the extensions don't seem to install correctly and allow for the higher display resolutions.

Any ideas on how to proceed or help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Try W10 guest's safe mode yet?
rsk
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Re: Upgrading VB 7.0.2's Guest Additions crashes my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 & W10 Pro VMs.

Post by rsk »

I haven't tried safe mode yet.

It does boot to a desktop on 7.04 with the 7.04 extensions installed.

There has to be something going on with the driver. I haven't been able to locate the log file yet to see what might be in there.
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