Vista Business + Kubuntu 8.04 = Blue screen of death
Vista Business + Kubuntu 8.04 = Blue screen of death
Trying to install new kubuntu (8.04, i386) on Windows Vista Business (32b) host results in Blue screen of death. It appears that something is wrong with display driver which reports a crash and successful recovery from it. After that system slows down and few seconds after BSOD appears. Configuration I'm working on is:
HP Compaq 6715s
AMD Turion 64 X2 T-58
ATI Radeon X1250 (Catalyst v8.476)
2 GB RAM
HP Compaq 6715s
AMD Turion 64 X2 T-58
ATI Radeon X1250 (Catalyst v8.476)
2 GB RAM
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Do you use AMD-v? If so, disable that. There are some stability issues with that. It will be fixed in the next release, hopefully.
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Nope, it's been disabled from the start... I gave VM 512 MB of RAM, 64 MB video memory, dynamically expanding VDI, and disbabled followig: IO APIC, AMD-V and PAESasquatch wrote:Do you use AMD-v? If so, disable that. There are some stability issues with that. It will be fixed in the next release, hopefully.
Also, tried to install Kubuntu 7.10, same thing happened. I really believe it has something to do with my graphic card/driver because every time VM starts to boot, screen goes blank, then restores itslf, I get windows yellow popup about ATI driver that successfully recovered from crash. After that screen goes blank again, system becomes unresponsive and after a minute or two BSOD apears and computer reboots...
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I'll have to investigate then. Could you create a defect in the mean time (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker) and include the information there? Thanks.
The same problem is mentioned here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=21106
Must have to do something with the ATI card (maybe with the x1250?).
Must have to do something with the ATI card (maybe with the x1250?).
I disagree - I have/had the same problem. I solved it with VBox 1.5.6 and earlier by enabling the AMD-V mode. With VBox 1.6.0 I can't enable AMD-V mode, because the VM will not even start to boot (but this seems another bug). With AMD-V mode disabled the VM crashes the whole system -- BSOD.Sasquatch wrote:Do you use AMD-v? If so, disable that. There are some stability issues with that. It will be fixed in the next release, hopefully.
It is an issue with the ATI and memory allocation in the page fault handler - colinux had the same problem and they solved it by:
cheers, Adrian.message from Henry Nestler of the colinux newsgroup for the same problem in colinux:
Last changes on memory page fault handler fixed many of boot problems. Typically
with very fast cpu's, or dual core. Shared graphic card and more as 1GB host
memory forced the bug. (SVN r1017, r1018)
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To add another example: I am trying to install Kubunto 7.10 on VBox 1.6.0 running on Windows Vista Business, on a HP 2400 series notebook.
I get the blue screen as well.
Before that, however, VBox gives me this message:
"The virtual machine window is optimized to work in 32 bit color mode but the color quality of the virtual display is currently set to 16 bit. Please open the display properties dialog of the guest OS and select a 32 bit color mode, if it is available..."
Maybe there is an issue in this?
I guess I'm supposed to change the color mode on the Kubunto 7.10 (the message refers to the guest), but the thing is, i'm trying to INSTALL Kubunto 7.10 (have mounted an iso image).
Any comments on this. Am I just doning things wrong, or has this to do with the same issue (some graphics problem)?
I'm NOT an expert and have just started trying out various OS's on VBox - simply out of curiosity.
I get the blue screen as well.
Before that, however, VBox gives me this message:
"The virtual machine window is optimized to work in 32 bit color mode but the color quality of the virtual display is currently set to 16 bit. Please open the display properties dialog of the guest OS and select a 32 bit color mode, if it is available..."
Maybe there is an issue in this?
I guess I'm supposed to change the color mode on the Kubunto 7.10 (the message refers to the guest), but the thing is, i'm trying to INSTALL Kubunto 7.10 (have mounted an iso image).
Any comments on this. Am I just doning things wrong, or has this to do with the same issue (some graphics problem)?
I'm NOT an expert and have just started trying out various OS's on VBox - simply out of curiosity.