[SOLVED] Guest Winows isnt shutting down correctly

waza-ari · Post by **waza-ari** » 7. Sep 2009, 10:06

Hello all,

i have a little problem with my vbox. I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 as Host with the shipped package of Virtualbox (2.2.4). The Guestsystem is Win XP (SP3 i guess).

When shutting down Windows, it doesn't always work. Sometimes the title changes from "WinXP [running]" to "WinXP [stopping]" but no matter how long i wait, it wont stop. I just can read the message "Windows is shutting down" with the windows logo above. I really have to restart my host-system to get my pc and the box working again.

Killing the processes only hides the guest-window, to start the host again i have to restart my whole system at all...

Someone has an idea about that?

Thanks in advance
and sorry for my poor english, but i thought there are more english users out there than germans

Post by **Perryg** » 7. Sep 2009, 15:59

Try shutting down the Windows guest by clicking the Machine tab at the top left of the window and then on ACPI shutdown.
I have this problem off and on and this approach always works for me.

waza-ari · Post by **waza-ari** » 7. Sep 2009, 19:30

Hi Perryg,

thanks for your help. Unfortunatly this doesnt solve the problem, nothing changed.

Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance

Daniel

Post by **Perryg** » 7. Sep 2009, 19:37

What happens if you disable the sound in the guest before you start it. Then shut down. Does it shut down then?

waza-ari · Post by **waza-ari** » 7. Sep 2009, 19:50

Hm, yeah, that did the trick.

Do you know why?

Post by **Perryg** » 7. Sep 2009, 19:52

I think it has to do with the ALSA driver but don't know how to fix it. It may be as simple as getting a different driver, but here again I am not sure. I have not had time to research it that far yet.

waza-ari · Post by **waza-ari** » 7. Sep 2009, 20:17

Its not the only problem with the sound-driver:

I'm currently not able to play any video file, mp3 works.

Maybe the current alsa snapshot is unstable... only using it because of the support for my Soundblaster X-Fi card...

I'm gonna try the new snapshot, maybe this helps.

Thanks so far

Daniel

Post by **Perryg** » 7. Sep 2009, 20:20

I have been able to select the soundblaster 16 in the Win guest settings. You must install the device from control panel add new hardware, and do it manually as Windows will not find it by itself. After that you need to reboot and see if this helps.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 7. Sep 2009, 22:58

I don't think the change to SB16 is a good idea. It's used for legacy OS only (DOS, Win9x).

Waza-ari, do you happen to have PulseAudio 0.9.14 installed and set it to 6 channels (5.1 surround)? If you do, then it's best to update your PulseAudio, as it's very likely that is your problem. I had the same issue, my VMs wouldn't shut down properly and I had to kill -9 them, because PA takes up your CPU when a VM starts and crash soon after, only to be spawned back. Because the connection VB had with PA was never normally closed, it hangs on that. You can update PA to 0.9.15 using this PPA:

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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/themuso/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
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waza-ari · Post by **waza-ari** » 8. Sep 2009, 19:41

Hi Sasquatch,

it wasnt the version, but the upgrade gave me a hint...

While upgrading my daemon.conf was overwritten and everything worked. After testing this, i used my own config file again and i had the same problem than before. After some research i fount out, that i have to lower the sound-quality, and that was all!

Thank goes to you two for helping me.

Thanks and good bye

Daniel

Post by **Sasquatch** » 8. Sep 2009, 20:01

I want to know what you had in your daemon.conf file. This is what I have in it and it runs without issues:

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; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; allow-exit = yes
use-pid-file = yes
system-instance = yes
; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB
; lock-memory = no
no-cpu-limit = yes

; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -11

; realtime-scheduling = no
; realtime-priority = 5

; exit-idle-time = 20
; module-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20

; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)

; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = 

; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0

resample-method = speex-float-1
; enable-remixing = no
; enable-lfe-remixing = yes

flat-volumes = no

; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rtttime = 1000000

; default-sample-format = s16le
default-sample-rate = 48000
default-sample-channels = 6

default-fragments = 8
default-fragment-size-msec = 25

waza-ari · Post by **waza-ari** » 8. Sep 2009, 20:33

Hi,

i just changed

resample-method = src-sinc-high-quality

to

resample-method = src-sinc-medium-quality

you dont have this setting at all in your config, give it a try...

Post by **Sasquatch** » 8. Sep 2009, 21:46

Mine says speex-float-1. It's right above flat volumes, below the log parts.

waza-ari · Post by **waza-ari** » 8. Sep 2009, 22:01

Hrmpf, im sorry...

Didnt see it, i was in a hurry before...

Yeah, this looks all right. Then i have no idea, sorry.

Here is my current deamon.conf, maybe this helps you:

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; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; disallow-module-loading = no
; disallow-exit = no
; use-pid-file = yes
; system-instance = no
; disable-shm = no
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB

; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -20

; realtime-scheduling = no
; realtime-priority = 5

; exit-idle-time = 20
; module-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20

; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)

; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file =

; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice

resample-method = src-sinc-medium-quality
 disable-remixing = no
 disable-lfe-remixing = no

; no-cpu-limit = no
; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rtttime = 1000000

; default-sample-format = s16le
; default-sample-rate = 44100
 default-sample-channels = 6

default-fragments = 8
default-fragment-size-msec = 10

Post by **Sasquatch** » 8. Sep 2009, 22:25

I don't have a problem anymore since I upgraded to 0.9.15. You are still running that version, aren't you? Do you notice any high CPU usage when you open pavucontrol or start the VM (or when it's running)? If so, check if it's from PA and update if is, you really should update.

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