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Critical Error when Starting Vista Guest
Posted: 29. Aug 2009, 08:31
by colinncox
I have been getting a critical error when I start my Vista guest. I have included the log file when booting. I have updated to Snow Leopard, but this was happening before the upgrade. Any help would be appreciated.
Re: Critical Error when Starting Vista Guest
Posted: 29. Aug 2009, 13:26
by vbox4me2
All I see is a black screen.....
Re: Critical Error when Starting Vista Guest
Posted: 29. Aug 2009, 13:45
by colinncox
That is all I get with a message that doesn't show up in the png. There is also a log file attached.
Re: Critical Error when Starting Vista Guest
Posted: 29. Aug 2009, 13:54
by vbox4me2
What is this message? logfiles don't say much if there is a Guest message.
Re: Critical Error when Starting Vista Guest
Posted: 29. Aug 2009, 14:04
by colinncox
I will try and get a screen shot next time I boot it up and get the error.It virtually tells me to send the png and the log file to virtualbox, and that it is a critical error, to quit. I am not at that computer at the moment. The last thing I did before I left home was revert to the original settings of the Snapshot and it booted OK. But sometimes it does boot OK and others it doesn't.
Re: Critical Error when Starting Vista Guest
Posted: 2. Sep 2009, 16:49
by colinncox
Here is the screenshot I got today, this occurs as the guest is ready to go to where the green flashing bar comes up. All I did was close the guest down by clicking on OK and then restarted the guest. I then got the message that windows had not shut down properly, with the options to start in safe mode etc. I started normally and it worked OK.
Re: Critical Error when Starting Vista Guest
Posted: 2. Sep 2009, 17:07
by Perryg
<snip> from your log file.
RAM: 2048MB RAM, available: 778MB
Guest assigned 536870912
You do not have enough RAM to do what you are trying to do. You can't assign more than 50% of the available RAM to the guest.