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unipsycho's advice did the trick for me too - thanks heaps to the OP...

Same thing happens to me as well - My PCLinuxOS 2009.2 (both KDE and Gnome) guest systems worked flawlessly on 2.2.4 but after upgrading to 3.0. the VMs just freeze and hang! (This is with Win7 as the Host)

I booted into Linux and installed V3 and again it froze when using either XP or Mandriva as the Guests so version 3 does seem buggy which is a great pity as it has some great new options.

Change the guest ethernet card from PC Net Fast III to Intel PRO/1000 MT desktop and problem is solved

Thanks for that trekfan, much appreciated - I'll give that a whirl

I have exactly the same failure as JeZ-l-Lee. I have a Lenvo T61 running Windows Vista 32-bit Ultimate. I installed VB 3.0.0, created an Ubuntu Linux VM and tried to install Ubuntu 9.04 and it failed at exactly the same point scanning apt.

I will need to reinstall 2.2.4 b/c I need to get this vm running today.

Change the guest ethernet card from PC Net Fast III to Intel PRO/1000 MT desktop and problem is solved

I changed my ethernet card from PC Net Fast III to Intel PRO/1000 MT and VB3 now works fine - thanks Trekfan

The install of Ubuntu fail in 30% of the install. The error is
reported in the log of VirtualBox:

00:05:12.478 [/Devices/usb-ehci/0/LUN#999/Config/] (level 5)
(restricted root)
00:05:12.478 papLeds <integer> = 0x0000000000e8e990 (15264144)
00:05:12.478 First <integer> = 0x0000000000000000 (0)
00:05:12.478 Last <integer> = 0x0000000000000000 (0)
00:05:12.478
00:05:12.479 [/TM/] (level 1)
00:05:12.479 UTCOffset <integer> = 0x0000000000000000 (0)
00:05:12.479
00:05:12.479 [/MM/] (level 1)
00:05:12.479
00:05:12.479 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:05:13.484 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to
'GURU_MEDITATION'.
00:05:13.525 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={26881797-
bc98-444d-ac69-820633b93ec7} aComponent={Display} aText={Argument
address is NULL} aWarning=false, preserve=false
00:06:32.414
00:06:32.414 !!Assertion Failed!!
00:06:32.414 Expression: RT_SUCCESS_NP(rc)
00:06:32.414 Location : E:\tinderbox\win-rel\src\VBox\Runtime\common
\misc\thread.cpp(727) RTThreadCreate
00:06:32.414 VERR_NO_MEMORY (-8) - Memory allocation failed.

The host operating system is Win Xp SP3 and I'm running VirtualBox 3.

Grateful for your help.

samuelbernardo start a new thread and tell us there host type vb version physical memory and how you have setup your guest.

Same problem here, but worse.

VirtualBox 3.0.0 upgraded from 2.2.4
WinXP Pro host
Debian Lenny 5.0 guest
GRUB bootloader

Unfortunately the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop workaround does not work for me. VirtualBox reports 'unable to get the MAC address' on 2 Dell Optiplex 745 and 755. Regenerating the MAC with the tools button yields no solution. Any other ideas?

Thanks!

UPDATE - turns out the workaround DOES work. I had configured port forwarding in the virtual machine using VBoxManage and the mappings were addressing the now non-existent pcnet device. Thanks to this posting for the hint.

BTW - does anyone know when port forwarding will be incorporated into the VirtualBox GUI?

baf wrote:samuelbernardo start a new thread and tell us there host type vb version physical memory and how you have setup your guest.

Problem solved with an uninstall of Virtual Box 3.0.0 followed by a new install of Virtual Box 2.2.4
The memory lack was due to the allocation in the guest configuration of 2048Mb, in a host with 3072Mb + 1024 shared for graphic (ACER Aspire 6930).

I'm sorry for not helping you more, but I'm stuck in academic work.

Congratulations for your project. VirtualBox is realy amazing!

Wanted to add that using the e1000 card worked for me also.

Host: Ubuntu 9.04, 64bit
Guest: Ububtu 8.04 server 32bit
VirtualBox: 3.0.10

--HippiePete