Windows crash with guest additions

[cecere]

I installed VirtualBox 3.0.6 in Solaris 10u7. I then installed WIndows XP SP3 as a guest OS.Everthing was fine until I went to install the guest additions. After doing so, Windows would not boot up. It got all the way to the desktop, then crashed and the guest window disappeared. The virtualbox window just said "aborted" for the status of the Windows guest.

I've confirmed this by trying several times. In each case, installing the guest additions made it so that Windows would no longer boot up. I'm guessing it's something to do with the display driver that the guest additions installed in Windows, but I'm not sure. Has anyone seen this problem ?

Thanks

[cecere]

I'm finding out this isn't limited to a Windows guest host on a Solaris system. I installed Fedora 10 (The Fedora 11 Live CD wouldn't even boot on vbox 3.0.6) and everything was fine until I installed the guest additions. Then wham! Fedora does the same thing as Windows. It starts booting up, but a few seconds after the GUI comes up, it barfs and vbox reports its status as 'Aborted'.

Then I tried installing the new 3.0.6 guest additions on my Mac for my Fedora 9 guest and no more X windows. Absolutely refuses to come up.

My advice to anyone who reads this is to stay away from installing the guest additions from vbox 3.0.6 anywhere. At least until someone acknowledges there's a problem and has a way to fix it.

Anyone have any clues as to what's wrong here ?

One other question. How does one go about uninstalling the guest additions ?

[mpack]

For Windows guests, inside the guest run control panel add/remove programs. Alternatively (again in a Windows guest) the VBox guest drivers are quite easy to find in the Windows folder - they are all called vbox*, and they all have the same (recent) date/time stamp.

Might I suggest trying an older version of the GAs? Try to pin down which versions work?

[mklight]

I had been running Windows XP under VirtualBox 3.0.4 with guest additions on a Gentoo Linux host without problems. Since I upgraded to VirtualBox 3.0.6 on the Linux host I have not been able to start guest additions without having Windows XP crash. Both 3.0.4 and 3.0.6 guest additions under my 3.0.6 host exhibit this failure. I have only been able to run Windows XP with guest additions removed when using the 3.0.6 Linux host.

[cecere]

That's been my experience too. I uninstalled 3.0.6 and installed 3.0.4 and didn't have any problems. It looks like they broke something in 3.0.6.

[cgunther]

Me too!

Ubuntu 9.04 host, VB 3.0.6, WinXP SP2 guest runs fine. Add Guest Additions and XP guest now crashes.

Hoping for a fix sometime soon....

[cgunther]

As others have said, unistalling 3.06 and going back to 3.04 solves the problem.

[lukemacneil]

I was building out a new XP vm, and noticed that all works as expected until XP SP3 is installed.
Another solution may be to roll back SP3.

[russgalleywood]

I have this too!

I am using Ubuntu 8.0.4 64bit edition with version 3.0.8 of VirtualBox.

I am trying to use a Windows 2003 Server installation as a Guest, works fine until I install the additions. It allows me to log in and then as it is trying to load icons, applications, etc it crashes without warning.
I suspect it may be load on the CPU, ut it's a Proliant 585 Server with four AMD processors so should be able to manage.
I tried installing all the Windows updates including SP2 but no better.
Then tried using the older 3.0.4 Guest additions as suggested on here but no better.

Really like VirtualBox but looks like I'm going back to the VMware Server for Linux if not sorted quickly

Thanks for any help

Russ