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vbox 2.2 suse11 guest not responding

Posted: 12. Apr 2009, 14:01
by strichards
I have a SuSe 11 guest running in a Vista Host.

The Guest window hangs to the host OS after some amount of time. The guest logs show the guest is still active but is unresponsive to host. I'm not sure if this is related to the memory regression mentioned in other threads or perhaps related to networking.

This guest ran fine under the VBOX 2.1.x versions, however would not run in the 2.2 betas.

I have reduced the memory foot print from 700MB down now to 384MB and the video from 128MB to 64MB also turned off 3d acceleration. (also changed networking mode from bridged to nat)

Running again. If it hangs I will try to RDP, I thought the guest was hung on my prior attempt (2 times now) but now that I know the guest is still running I will try some other stuff.

Log is here: http://pastebin.com/m4a2d2d06

Windows event log:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 4/12/2009 6:53:29 AM
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Steve-Dell
Description:
The program VirtualBox.exe version 2.2.0.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Problem Reports and Solutions control panel. Process ID: ae8 Start Time: 01c9bb1e2d699cc6 Termination Time: 459
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Hang" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>101</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-04-12T10:53:29.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>154080</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Steve-Dell</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>VirtualBox.exe</Data>
<Data>2.2.0.0</Data>
<Data>ae8</Data>
<Data>01c9bb1e2d699cc6</Data>
<Data>459</Data>
<Binary>430072006F00730073002D0074006800720065006100640000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

Re: vbox 2.2 suse11 guest not responding

Posted: 12. Apr 2009, 15:54
by keithy
I get the same thing happening when running ubuntu server 8.10 on XP sp3 host :(

Re: vbox 2.2 suse11 guest not responding

Posted: 12. Apr 2009, 18:30
by strichards
It's been up for 5 hours now with the few changes I listed in my 1st post. Certainly a better result so far.

Re: vbox 2.2 suse11 guest not responding

Posted: 14. Apr 2009, 22:00
by keithy
Hi,
Any better for you now?? I'm still having grief, but have to use bridged networking :(

Sometimes it will run for almost 24 hours without crashing, but crash it eventually does.

One other thing I notice is that after an hour or so, CPU usage of virtualbox goes up to roughly 20%. Normally it just sits there virtually zero as the virtual server is currently not doing much (CPU usage of the Ubuntu server remains near zero)

Arrgghh. Wish I'd just left it alone now as it was VERY stable before!

Re: vbox 2.2 suse11 guest not responding

Posted: 14. Apr 2009, 22:35
by strichards
Changes I made seem to have alleviated the problem. I don't know which was the change that made the difference but I suspect reducing the memory. I also made one other change that I neglected to mention, and that was enabling PAE mode which was off.

Regards,
Steve

Re: vbox 2.2 suse11 guest not responding

Posted: 23. Apr 2009, 19:11
by aliengin
sorry, wrong topic :)