Guest OS keeps Aborting

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 5. Oct 2008, 20:47

My virtual machine keeps aborting. I'm running Windows XP guest on Ubuntu Host.

yournamehere · Post by **yournamehere** » 5. Oct 2008, 21:20

describe "aborting" in some detail w/a little context and you'll likely get a better reply than mine (you may also find the answer yourself by searching something relatively specific/unique about what you see happening)

Post by **TerryE** » 5. Oct 2008, 23:15

Have a look the Forum Posting Guide for help in framing Qs.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 6. Oct 2008, 14:52

whaat i mean is that any time i'm working within my vitual machine and maybe i stop working there for a while and switch to my host os the vm just aborts. I don't understand why.

Post by **TerryE** » 6. Oct 2008, 18:08

OK you have my sympathy but you aren't going to get any useful advice until you provide us with basic data to go on: Base H/W, Host OS config (more then just XP), Guest OS (which version of Ubunbu; 386 / AMD64) , VBox version, VM configuration, ... We don't run a psychic service!

Post by **stephanecharette** » 6. Oct 2008, 18:46

TerryE wrote:OK you have my sympathy but you aren't going to get any useful advice until you provide us with basic data to go on: Base H/W, Host OS config (more then just XP), Guest OS (which version of Ubunbu; 386 / AMD64) , VBox version, VM configuration, ... We don't run a psychic service!
:lol:

Something just as useful -- next time you open the VirtualBox GUI, click on one of the VMs that has aborted, and click on the menubar: Machine -> Show Log... (CTRL+L).

You should have several logs. When a machine aborts, the log file will contain the reason why. Look for a line near the bottom of the log, perhaps it says something like "!!Assertion Failed!!". But it should be relatively obvious that it is logging an error of some sort. Let us know what it says.

Stéphane Charette

Post by **TerryE** » 6. Oct 2008, 21:02

stephanecharette wrote:Look for a line near the bottom of the log, perhaps it says something like "!!Assertion Failed!!". But it should be relatively obvious that it is logging an error of some sort. Let us know what it says.

Stéphane, that's in the case where the VBox VMM fails. The other class of failure is that the Guest OS itself might be failing, in which case the VMM will produce a VBox.log which just shows normal shutdown. Without any detailed error messages we may as well resort to a crystal ball.

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Guest OS keeps Aborting

Guest OS keeps Aborting

thank you.