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Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 4. Jan 2013, 20:34
by loukingjr
michaln wrote:
loukingjr wrote:4.2.5 and 4.2.6 were changed to work with the ivy bridge processors so I suppose it's odd 4.2.4 works but at any rate, perhaps you have an extension that is only affecting 4.2.6? Also, do you happen to have SSD only? I'm not sure anything else could be an issue other than permissions since both michain and I have 4.2.6 running just fine in OSX 10.8.2.
There's a 4.2.5? That's news to me... there was 4.2.1 to fix problems with OS X 10.8.2 on Ivy Bridge Macs, but there was no 4.2.3 or 4.2.5.
there was a test 4.2.5

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 5. Jan 2013, 01:28
by debu
I have a core i5 MBA with ML.

I have the same issue.

I open it and it just hangs.

I installed 4.2.4 and all my VMs are gone.

The data is there but they are not showing up.

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 5. Jan 2013, 13:33
by michaln
loukingjr wrote:there was a test 4.2.5
Yes. I don't see how it's relevant though.

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 5. Jan 2013, 13:38
by loukingjr
michaln wrote:
loukingjr wrote:there was a test 4.2.5
Yes. I don't see how it's relevant though.
was just clarifying

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 5. Jan 2013, 16:42
by kimus
loukingjr wrote: 4.2.5 and 4.2.6 were changed to work with the ivy bridge processors so I suppose it's odd 4.2.4 works but at any rate, perhaps you have an extension that is only affecting 4.2.6? Also, do you happen to have SSD only? I'm not sure anything else could be an issue other than permissions since both michain and I have 4.2.6 running just fine in OSX 10.8.2.
No SSD here and I bet it's not an issue of permissions. All my VMs (twelve) are displayed in the Virtualbox Manager (left side, in 2 groups) but when populating the info of the current VM (right side) it just take ages (first shows the general tab, then the preview... etc) and just stops/hangs.

And no extension installed on 4.2.6. The only extension I install (ex: in 4.2.4) is the "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack".

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 5. Jan 2013, 16:50
by loukingjr
kimus wrote:
loukingjr wrote: 4.2.5 and 4.2.6 were changed to work with the ivy bridge processors so I suppose it's odd 4.2.4 works but at any rate, perhaps you have an extension that is only affecting 4.2.6? Also, do you happen to have SSD only? I'm not sure anything else could be an issue other than permissions since both michain and I have 4.2.6 running just fine in OSX 10.8.2.
No SSD here and I bet it's not an issue of permissions. All my VMs (twelve) are displayed in the Virtualbox Manager (left side, in 2 groups) but when populating the info of the current VM (right side) it just take ages (first shows the general tab, then the preview... etc) and just stops/hangs.

And no extension installed on 4.2.6. The only extension I install (ex: in 4.2.4) is the "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack".
I'm sorry. I meant any third party extensions installed on the Mac itself. There have been many an extension that has interferred with one program or another.

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 5. Jan 2013, 16:56
by kimus
loukingjr wrote:I'm sorry. I meant any third party extensions installed on the Mac itself. There have been many an extension that has interferred with one program or another.
Only AFloat that I know off... only afects Cocoa applications right?

A shot on what happens (http://cl.ly/image/3i224614190r):
Image

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 5. Jan 2013, 17:02
by loukingjr
kimus wrote:
loukingjr wrote:I'm sorry. I meant any third party extensions installed on the Mac itself. There have been many an extension that has interferred with one program or another.
Only AFloat that I know off... only afects Cocoa applications right?

A shot on what happens (http://cl.ly/image/3i224614190r):
Image
I can't say. I don't use afloat but you could always disable/uninstall it and see. Or you could try booting in safe mode.
I see the problem. I wish I knew what caused it.

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 5. Jan 2013, 23:35
by michaln
Anyone thought of using VBoxManage to see whether VirtualBox is completely blocked/hung or just the GUI? Is it possible to start VMs, either via VBoxManage or with VirtualBox --startvm?

So far we have a problem with affects a small but non-zero number of people, no reproduction scenario, and no obvious clues...

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 6. Jan 2013, 00:53
by kimus
michaln wrote:Anyone thought of using VBoxManage to see whether VirtualBox is completely blocked/hung or just the GUI? Is it possible to start VMs, either via VBoxManage or with VirtualBox --startvm?
Works fine (after installing the extension pack for my VMs using USB 2.0). Even going to Settings of the VM works fine!!
Only VBoxManager hangs.

BTW, I've uninstalled AFloat also and still hangs/blocks!

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 7. Jan 2013, 21:02
by kimus
giving up?

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 9. Jan 2013, 18:40
by kimus

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 30. Jan 2013, 21:19
by kimus

Re: Virtualbox 4.2.6 hangs in Mac OS X ML

Posted: 10. Mar 2013, 23:10
by preda
Virtualbox became completely useless for me on ML. No fix for the hang issue even with the latest upgrade. Is there any trick?