Pretty much every morning my VBox is running but the VBox GUI is 'dead', that is, none of the GUI buttons can be clicked and the mouse is not seen in the virtualbox. I can group select icons so the mouse is there but I can not see it.
The Keyboard does still transfer to the Virtual machine if the mouse is inside the vbox windows.
I can remote access to it or VNC to it. I can also use vboxmanage to send it an acpishutdown (or although I have not tried yet it should be able to suspend it, then hopefully the GUI will close and I can resume in a new GUI.
This has only started since an upgrade from 1.5 .2 to 2.0.2
Host: CentOS 5.2
Client: WinXP SP3
VirtualBox additions installed
Any ideas how to fix this or is it a bug?
Sun VBox GUI dies but vbox continues
I'm getting exactly the same problem with Virtualbox 2.0.2 on a clean install of Ubuntu 8.04. Approximately once a day the VirtualBox window stops responding to user input for several minutes although the virtual machine within it can still be seen to be running fine.
I haven't noticed this behaviour in earlier versions of VirtualBox, but I have been using it a lot more since upgrading to 2.0.2.
I haven't noticed this behaviour in earlier versions of VirtualBox, but I have been using it a lot more since upgrading to 2.0.2.
I couldn't find any bugs about this, so I've raised one now:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2380
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2380