VMs are freezing host Centos 5.2 System

[jgerry2002]

I have a 64bit Centos 5.2 machine that I've installed Virtualbox 2.1 on.

Its a newer HP DL385 w/18GB of RAM and 2x quad cores.

I installed 3 VMs:Server 2008 VM, 2003 VM, 2003 64 bit VM

Every time I try to change the Network settings under any of my Windows VMs from "Nat" to "Host Adapter" and chose either adapter (eth0 or eth1) in my system, when I try to launch the VM it instantly freezes both the VM and the host machine.

Any thoughts?

[mrsticks]

I am afraid I cannot be of much help, other than providing comfort with the fact that you are not alone.

Just today I installed the 64bit VBox current release on my system, also CentOS 5.2. The guest was the same OS, 32bit version. If the networking on the VM is enabled in any way, on boot it instantly freezes the host and the guest. The VM works fine if the guest's network is disabled. That's a big IF though.

This was just a few mins ago, I have not begun to dig around trying to root out the issue.

-peter

[atilabs]

Similar problem here.

I have an HP Proliant DL385 w/6GB of RAM, dual Opteron, running a fresh copy of Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.2 (i386).

I just installed VirtualBox 2.1 from the the rpm (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... 1.i386.rpm) and every time I try to create a virtual machine with any kind of network card enabled the whole system gets freeze, the whole system, host and guest, by the way the guest OS is Red Hat Enterprise Server 4.5.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[jgerry2002]

The same hardware running Fedora Core 10 and it now works just fine.

I have a feeling its something software related in Centos 5.2 itself. Not sure what it could be, nor do I have the time find out.

I would have to think its related to the way the kernel and the network card interact.

[atilabs]

I found this in the bugtracker, I followed the instructions about patch a file and re-compile the kernel module and now VBox is working.

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2827

[wpm]

I'm having the same problem...I'm on CentOS 5.2, just upgraded to VirtualBox 2.1. The virtual machine is Windows XP with SP3. I can get the virtual machine to connect via NAT, but I need to use the Host Interface in order to join the domain. It crashes the OS every time when using the Host Interface. I'm in the process of applying the fix, listed above. The fix also lists the cause of the problem.

[sparticlevbox]

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=13537