I am a new VBox user & just installed it yesterday, version 1.5.6. I found out VBox is very lightweight & significantly faster compared to other VMs! Thumbs up!
However today I encountered a small anomaly while using ISO image. My host is WinXP and my guest is Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5 clone). I am trying to install Oracle Database 10g R2 from an ISO image, but no matter how many times I tried, my VBox kept crashing during database installation. FYI, the Oracle installation is done via a java-based GUI.
I went to the log file to see if I could find any useful messages and I found these at the bottom:
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00:51:05.350 !!Assertion Failed!!
00:51:05.350 Expression: ReqType == ATA_AIO_RESET_ASSERTED || ReqType == ATA_AIO_RESET_CLEARED || ReqType == ATA_AIO_ABORT || pCtl->uAsyncIOState == ReqType
00:51:05.350 Location : C:\vbox\branch\w32-1.5\src\VBox\Devices\Storage\DevATA.cpp(4173) ataAsyncIOLoop
00:51:05.350 PIIX3 IDE: guest issued command 0xa0 while controller busy
00:51:05.351 I/O state inconsistent: state=0 request=1
00:51:05.354 PIIX3 IDE: guest issued command 0xa0 while controller busy
00:51:05.354 PIIX3 IDE: guest issued command 0xa0 while controller busy
00:51:05.355 PIIX3 IDE: guest issued command 0xa0 while controller busy
00:51:05.356 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: performing device RESET
00:51:35.343 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#1: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0x08 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0xec (-1 usec ago)
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I guess something went wrong with LUN#2 and eventually LUN#2 is assigned to the CDROM, by looking at this in the upper section:
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00:04:45.995 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#0: disk, CHS=16644/16/63, total number of sectors 16777216
00:04:45.995 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#1: disk, CHS=16644/16/63, total number of sectors 16777216
00:04:45.995 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD/DVD, total number of sectors 348910, passthrough disabled
00:04:45.996 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#3: disk, CHS=41610/16/63, total number of sectors 41943040
00:04:45.996 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
00:04:46.096 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#1: finished processing RESET
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Well, to make my installation work I just mount my shared folder using "mount -t vboxsf shared /mnt/shared" and mount the ISO image insidethe shared folder as CDROM using the old fashion way and it works.
I am just wondering if there are any known issue on mounting ISO image. Or maybe I have done something wrong. I am hoping if you guys could throw some light.
Keep up the good work guys
