Has anyone else experienced this? It doesn't happen after the VM has been started up normally - Fullscreen works fine in this situation. It appears to only occur after the VM has been paused (saving the state) and then resumed later. When Cmd-F is pressed, the screen goes black for about 5-10 seconds, then the VM aborts.
I am running OS X 10.7.3 and VirtualBox 4.1.8 r75467.
VirtualBox VM crashes on switch to FullScreen
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Re: VirtualBox VM crashes on switch to FullScreen
You probably need more memory for the display (VM settings | Display | Video Memory). At the very least make sure that VirtualBox isn't giving warnings about low memory in this field.
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Re: VirtualBox VM crashes on switch to FullScreen
I would be interested in knowing what guests are actually causing the problem and if they are using Gnome3 desktops.
Re: VirtualBox VM crashes on switch to FullScreen
Hi mpack,
Thanks for the tip. I had given the VM 64Mb of display memory, so I tried increasing it to 128Mb (the maximum) - no difference - problem still occurs. It wasn't giving any errors about low memory before I changed it. I have also confirmed that it only happens after the VM has been suspended and then resumed later on. When it is freshly booted up, Fullscreen works fine.
Perryg - the Guest OS in this case is Windows 7 Ultimate.
Thanks for the tip. I had given the VM 64Mb of display memory, so I tried increasing it to 128Mb (the maximum) - no difference - problem still occurs. It wasn't giving any errors about low memory before I changed it. I have also confirmed that it only happens after the VM has been suspended and then resumed later on. When it is freshly booted up, Fullscreen works fine.
Perryg - the Guest OS in this case is Windows 7 Ultimate.
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Re: VirtualBox VM crashes on switch to FullScreen
It seems to me you should raise a ticket for this on BugTracker. Be sure to include a link to this discussion.
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Re: VirtualBox VM crashes on switch to FullScreen
Any news regarding this issue? The exact same thing happens to me.
Is it added to the bug tracker already? If so, how do I keep track of it??
Thanks and sorry for the dumb questions... This is my first post here!
Is it added to the bug tracker already? If so, how do I keep track of it??
Thanks and sorry for the dumb questions... This is my first post here!
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Re: VirtualBox VM crashes on switch to FullScreen
Yes, a ticket was raised - here. If you intend to add to the ticket then do not forget to add a zipped log file of a failed VM session. The log file "VBox.log" can be found in the "Logs" subfolder of the VM folder.