Frequent hung up on Windows Server 2008 64bit host on vb222

[Techno.Scavenger]

Hi All,

Thanks for the new release!!!

I have upgraded my Windows Server 2008 64bit host to the latest VB (2.2.2) today. What I noticed though is that I have several cases today already that vm guests hungs up during reboot and/or shutdown.

Anyone have the issue? And possible work-around?

Note:
I have updated guest additions to 2.2.2. My quest OS's ranges from XP, Vista, W2k3, w2k8.

Regards,
Technos

[Techno.Scavenger]

And I can't kill virtualbox.exe process that hungs up.

[vbox4me2]

You sure that MS's hypervisor isn't active at the same time?

[eddykeen23]

I also have exactly the same issue since updating to v2.2.2.

My host is Windows XP Pro SP3 (x86) and it seems to happen with many different Guest OSs - Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista, Ubuntu.
The issue is the the guest machine window won't respond during a reboot/shutdown which then in turn causes all VirtualBox Windows to lock up and become unresponsive. One of the VirtualBox.exe process will use 50% of the CPU (more likely 100% of one of the cpu cores but I can't tell) and I can't end process on any of the VirtualBox.exe processes.
I never had this problem until I updated to v2.2.2 yesterday. Now it happens almost every reboot/shutdown of a virtual machine.

Yesterday I wasn't able to shutdown my Host OS because the process had hung.

Has anyone else encountered this issue and have any ideas on a fix? If I roll back to the previous version of Virtual Box will my virtual machines work?

Thanks a lot

Ed

[Techno.Scavenger]

And my usb dongles is not working with the VMs anymore!!! Seems like there is a major regression on this release.

[vbox4me2]

What if you disable vt-x?

[eddykeen23]

Thanks for the quick reply vb - I tried that but unfortunately the problem continued.

[Techno.Scavenger]

The quest continues......

Anyone established a work-around?

[vbox4me2]

You will have to debug this by disabling stuff on the Host like AV, any database server(s), services, etc...

[Techno.Scavenger]

Ouch, that's not easy.

Note that this didn't happen prior to 2.2.2 or maybe not as frequent.

[vbox4me2]

You have to start somewhere to get to the bottum of it, maybe a complete VBox removal and re-install will help.
Or use a basic debugger to find which components are behind the hanging ones, like processexplorer.

[Techno.Scavenger]

What process are we talking here? Guest or host? As far as my investigation goes, it is the virtualbox.exe that is not responding.

[vbox4me2]

The Host ofcourse as thats what you said where it hangs.

[Techno.Scavenger]

He he he... don't have 64bit compiler here and it does not seems to be something easy. If anyone can walk me through how to do it then I might be tempted to just that.

[Cecile]

Hi all,

Just to let you know I got the same problem.
Host is Vista and guest is Ubuntu (Jaunty). It happened several times that during shutdown or reboot the VM freezes and then VirtualBox (as Techno.Scavenger I can't kill the VirtualBox.exe process then). After that it takes a loooong time to reboot the host system or I may even have to hard reboot my computer. Looks like a bug here

I hope anyone has an idea to work around this little annoying problem ... I've tried stuff such as process utilities but can't solve it. I'll keep you posted if I can find anything.

Regards,
Cecile