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A couple annoying, but not disastrous issues that lasted through beta. I didn't get a chance to report them, however. This is all on an OpenSolaris 2009.06 host (64-bit).

1. Guests using NAT: when connecting via FTP to the VB host, the host logs the error below. This doesn't happen with other destinations, just the host:

Jun 30 17:34:56 fnog ftpd[11373]: [ID 227848 daemon.warning] refused PORT 10.0.2.15,51708 from 192.168.99.22 [192.168.99.22]

This never happened with previous VB versions, and I've even gone back & forth with 2.2.4 to confirm this. 192.168.99.22 is the host IP. Guest OS doesn't matter. I'm not sure what the cause of the error is, so I don't know if I can override this with an ftpaccess file on the host. I don't use much FTP as it is, and shared folders works fine.

2. Google Earth doesn't see the DirectX support, and I have installed the MS DirectX package. I know--still experimental, and I'm not concerned.

Other issues I observed with the beta seem fixed--no shared clipboard with OpenSolaris guests (fixed), multiple cores on an OpenSolaris guest would crash the host (fixed--so far), frequent guest pauses (fixed?), OpenSolaris guest additions installer fixed.

I found what appears to be a pretty significant additions problem in OpenSolaris guests (at least for 64-bit guests). Things like gnome-appearance-properties (always), menu highlighting (sometimes) and visible window relocation/movement (sometimes) do not function or display properly in guests.

gnome-appearance-properties returns this error:

ld.so.1: gnome-appearance-properties: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/X11/lib/libGL.so: symbol glXFreeMemoryMESA: referenced symbol not found

ld.so.1: gnome-appearance-properties: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties: symbol glXQueryServerString: referenced symbol not found


And on a 64-bit guest of 32-bit XP (with VT-X enabled, of course), when moving windows like a gnome-terminal, or moving through the menus, I can not see any menu highlighting or window movement. Once I select or let go of the mouse button, then I get what I wanted. This problem was with a 2009.06 guest. With a 2008.11 guest on a different host, I've not seen the movement or menu issue, but I still get the libGL problem.

I've not tried tracking down the rather circuitous links of the libGL stuff in case a link is misdirected or missing, but this could use a pretty quick fix! Disabling 3D acceleration in the guest setup has not yet made any difference, nor has uninstalling and reinstalling the additions.

On a Windows XP-64 Pro host, I had a 2.2.4 Vbox installation of OpenSolaris and Ubuntu.

Getting good performance on the network, upwards of 20+ MB down, .7 MB up. Network is physically a Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC. VBox used the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (NAT).

Installed 3.0.0 and used the same images, both had significant net download performance impact, to less than 1 MB, though the ping and the upload speed seem unaffected. Responsiveness in things like browsers was really bad, a network speed test (speedtest.net) showed throughput being bursts. On Open Solaris (64 bit) I was able to immediately get both processors of my E6600 working with no changes.

Ubuntu (64 bit) had the same network performance issue, and had never had the Guest Additions installed.

After uninstalling 3.0.0 and reboot, reinstall 2.2.4, the network speed is back up, and responsive.

No changes were done to the installations between VBox versions.

I haven't found anything like this in the forms, is anyone else seeing this?

Host: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Version 2003, Service Pack 2.
Intel Core2 6600 @ 2.4GHz, 4 GB Ram

Guests: OpenSolaris 2009.06 64-bit, 64 GB virtual disk, 1500 MB virtual memory
Suse 11 64-bit, 64 GB virtual disk, 1500 MB virtual memory

I found what appears to be a pretty significant additions problem in OpenSolaris guests (at least for 64-bit guests). Things like gnome-appearance-properties (always), menu highlighting (sometimes) and visible window relocation/movement (sometimes) do not function or display properly in guests.

gnome-appearance-properties returns this error:

ld.so.1: gnome-appearance-properties: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/X11/lib/libGL.so: symbol glXFreeMemoryMESA: referenced symbol not found

ld.so.1: gnome-appearance-properties: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties: symbol glXQueryServerString: referenced symbol not found


And on a 64-bit guest of 32-bit XP (with VT-X enabled, of course), when moving windows like a gnome-terminal, or moving through the menus, I can not see any menu highlighting or window movement. Once I select or let go of the mouse button, then I get what I wanted. This problem was with a 2009.06 guest. With a 2008.11 guest on a different host, I've not seen the movement or menu issue, but I still get the libGL problem.

I just installed a fresh 2009.06 64-bit guest of the same host OS (2009.06 64-bit). It has all the same problems as my last comment on an XP host: no visible movement of windows, no menu highlighting, libGL complaints, no gnome-appearance-properties, the mouse also sometimes disappears, and surely more to come. I'm betting this is all tied to the same libGL problem, and if someone finds the magic missing link or workaround, it would be much appreciated.

These are pretty obvious issues, so I hope someone can figure this out quickly. I'll try, but there's not much I can do unless I find the magic link!

tomoke wrote:On a Windows XP-64 Pro host, I had a 2.2.4 Vbox installation of OpenSolaris and Ubuntu.

Getting good performance on the network, upwards of 20+ MB down, .7 MB up. Network is physically a Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC. VBox used the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (NAT).

Installed 3.0.0 and used the same images, both had significant net download performance impact, to less than 1 MB, though the ping and the upload speed seem unaffected. Responsiveness in things like browsers was really bad, a network speed test (speedtest.net) showed throughput being bursts. On Open Solaris (64 bit) I was able to immediately get both processors of my E6600 working with no changes.

So far, my network performance on guests, both NAT and bridged, seems equally good on both 2.2.4 and 3.0.0. My host is OpenSolaris 2009.06, and the Crossbow networking significantly improved VB network performance in my testing. I haven't experienced your host platform. See http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2838 for details on how that changed, if you're interested.

Found 2 problems after upgrade.
1. Guest machine has VBoxGuestAdditions.iso image attached. Stopped, upgraded... After upgrade VBoxGuestAdditions.iso image was upgraded too, and assigned new uuid. Attempting to start VM was impossible, giving an errors about inaccessible configuration data. After investigating the xml file I found the problem: Image uuid has been zeroed. Changing manually the uuid solved the problem.
2. Using 2 CPU on guest machine (linux 2.6 amd64) leads to very high CPU load on the host (linux 2.6 amd64, Intel E8400)

VirtualBox 3.0 Release is still in deep beta level. I can not install any OS because of blue screen. I back to 2.2.4

I upgraded to 3.0 and had no issues (Ubuntu 64 host, Win XP guest).

The only comment I have is that I have a dual core processor, and the VM seems very slow when running using 2 virtual processors.
I decided to get back to only one processor for now... I remember a discussion here saying that there is a lot of slowdown to make a VM use more than 1 processor, a lot of sync issues between the threads, I don't know.

Since this release is the first to support this, I believe next versions will bring at least a better performance.

Anyway, great release! Everything else works perfectly for me.

i am using vbox 3.0 on windows 7 host, with xp guest installed new guest additions.
the new toolbar in fullscreen-mode works fine on my main screen.
if i activate fullscreen on my second screen, there is no toolbar.

By the way, how can I get rid of the VM-ware-like banner (yuk!) at the bottom of the screen?

Uncheck mini toolbar: guest settings / general / advanced.

The manual has either unclear or incorrect information for Solaris hosts, and unlike previous releases where it said "all of these issues will be resolved..., that verbiage has been removed as of 2.2.4, which concerns me.

Regarding the unclear/incorrect information, it's all under a section about Solaris u5/u6, and the only mention of OpenSolaris is USB support. However, most or all of the issues mentioned there apply also to OpenSolaris. And are these NOT going to be fixed in future releases since the reassuring text has been removed? This is YOUR platform, Sun, so please invest into it, and at least reassure us!

Was happily running VirtualBox 2.2.4 on host Kubuntu 9.04 on AMD 64 processor.
Guest is Fedora 8. Guest extensions installed.
Upgraded to VirtualBox 3.0.0 on host.
Guest started fine and seemed to run fine. Installed guest extensions for 3.0.0..
However within guest, when using Firefox to download a large file from the web, the download hung up at about 2 MB.
Downloaded the same file on the host. Then tried using sftp from within guest to move the file from host. sftp also hung up at about 2 MB.
Enough disk space on guest.
At this point, reverted to VirtualBox 2.2.4 on host.
Restarted guest; retried sftp; transfer completed successfully.
Now happily running again on 2.2.4

colikara wrote:Was happily running VirtualBox 2.2.4 on host Kubuntu 9.04 on AMD 64 processor.
Guest is Fedora 8. Guest extensions installed.
Upgraded to VirtualBox 3.0.0 on host.
Guest started fine and seemed to run fine. Installed guest extensions for 3.0.0..
However within guest, when using Firefox to download a large file from the web, the download hung up at about 2 MB.
Downloaded the same file on the host. Then tried using sftp from within guest to move the file from host. sftp also hung up at about 2 MB.
Enough disk space on guest.
At this point, reverted to VirtualBox 2.2.4 on host.
Restarted guest; retried sftp; transfer completed successfully.
Now happily running again on 2.2.4

Interesting. I think I am also having a problem with big transfers killing / stalling my connection. Win7 Host, XP Guest. I connect to a VPN from the guest, and after a bit it seems that all the traffic stalls out. Even trying to access google is pretty hit or miss.

Someone else in IRC said they had a problem installing ubuntu
"I tried to install ubuntu karmic. it checks the repositories at the beginning of the installation. there the vmachine just broke"

Also, I am trying to install XP slipstreamed with SP3 on a NEW virtual machine, and it locks up at Installing Devices

Migrate from 2.2.1 OSE to 3.0 following the Linux notes from the site with no issues (Mint 7 host with Win XP 32 guest). It even recognized my previous vm machines.
I installed it from the package manager of Mint after the short cmds indicated. Neat. Then install version 3 add-ons.
Everything works fine but the video driver is much slower then 2.2.1 I found. The windows struggle while moving. Don't know why. (Nvidia 8800gt). Only one cpu is used (older Opteron 2 cores).
I gave a shot at DX support with 3dmark2001. It succeed to ran the first test then crash.

Now thank a lot to the developers. This is a neat product. If you can give me DX9 for my games. You own me.