Discuss VirtualBox 3.0.10 release

[uli100]

I know - maybe I'm not the one who should create a topic named like this one. Please forgive me.

I've just installed 3.0.10 on Ubuntu/jaunty and: Finally, cloning a hard disk from VMDK to VMDK,Split2G seems to work! Great! Now I can delete the vmware binary...

Best regards, Uli

[maierkomor]

I have just installed VirtualBox 3.0.10 on a Windows XP host with an OpenSolaris guest. During install of guest additions I got the following message on the guest's console:
NOTICE: rtR0MemObjNativeLockUser: as_pagelock failed rc=13

The same message reappears after reboot many times, and it is also logged in syslog. In syslog it is prefixed with vboxguest. So this seems to be an issue with the guest addition. The same issue did not exist with VirtualBox 3.0.8.

I am unable to see (yet) how it impacts the system. Shared folder seem to work correctly, and I am unable to comment on X, as I have disabled X.

- Thomas

[uli100]

So finally, I made some more tests related to --format VMDK --variant Split2G:

• Cloning a virtual disk into this format finally works. Before, the command "VBoxManage clonehd src.vmdk dst.vmdk --format VMDK --variant Split2G" used to abort with a failure
• Installing an operating system on a virtual disk created by "VBoxManage createhd --filename /tmp/a.vmdk --size 4000 --format VMDK --variant Split2G" finally works, too. Before, the installation started but I got some very strange disk errors later on. The system log of the client showed IDE errors

So: I'm really happy with 3.0.10.

Thanks for this great new version, Uli

[uli100]

I've made most of my tests based on Ubuntu-9.10 and a couple of old VMs I've created before. From my point of view, this is another great success story.

• Using Ubuntu-9.10-desktop as a host operating system works without any issue. OK, that's not 100% true. Somehow, the kvm modules got loaded on my system. I had to unload them, otherwise no VM could be executed
• Using Ubuntu-9.10-server as a guest operating system works without any issue, too
• NAT networking works
• Host-only networking works

So: Yesterday was a great installation day. Both Ubuntu-9.10 and VB-3.0.10 provide a really good new working environment for me.

Note: This is not meant to be an advertisement for Ubuntu-9.10

Best regards, Uli

[Etepetete]

I have also installed the Version 3.0.10-54097. Here are my observations:

• -Executing scripts (i.e. double clicking on a .cmd file) in the Guest is noticeably faster than in the previous version, although it still slightly slower than when running on a standard non-virtualized environment.
  
  -The programs I previously reported taking a moment longer to build their GUI (CCleaner, FreeCommander), now build their GUIs at a speed comparable to running on the host.
  
  -The USB driver showed similar behavior as with the previous version, i.e. when I inserted the USB Flash Drive into the host machine while the VM was running, the host machine then required the driver for the VB USB support to be installed. After confirming installation, nothing happened. The USB Flash Drive was visible to neither host nor guest. I shut down the VM, Closed VB and powered off the host machine. After the USB Flash Drive had been powered off, I removed it. I powered on the host machine, started the VM, and attached the USB Flash Drive and the results are positive. The USB functions superbly. (This happened while running an XP Guest as well as running a Slackware Guest. This only happened once, i.e. attaching the USB Flash Drive in subsequent guests did not require renewed installation of the VB USB driver.)
  
  -The installation (update) of this current version went without any problems (see note below). I also updated the GuestAdditions without any problems. Again, there were no erroneous devices to be seen in the device manager of the host.
  
  -Something I hadn't reported in the discussion thread for version 3.0.8 was the uncontrolled repeating of key presses in my Slackware Guest. At the time I thought it just had something to do with the settings in my guest. Later I had noticed various posts from other forum members and realized that this was a bug. In version 3.0.10 I was not able to reproduce this bug, i.e. no uncontrolled key press repeating observed.

Interesting to note is the fact that running the installer of this version caused Comodo on the host to report a bug in Comodo. As I didn't have Comodo installed prior to installing version 3.0.8, I have no data to compare with my present observations.

All in all, this release proves to contain a performance and stability boost compared to the previous version. I love VirtualBox even more!

[SSCBrian]

-Something I hadn't reported in the discussion thread for version 3.0.8 was the uncontrolled repeating of key presses in my Slackware Guest. At the time I thought it just had something to do with the settings in my guest. Later I had noticed various posts from other forum members and realized that this was a bug. In version 3.0.10 I was not able to reproduce this bug, i.e. no uncontrolled key press repeating observed.

Well, unfortunately, that bug is BACK in Solaris under VBox now. The unrequested repeat issue from early 3.0.x releases seemed to be fixed in 3.0.8, but is back in 3.0.10 (but rarely, nowhere near as bad as it was the first time around).

[mphuff]

There's a rumor going around that 3.0.10 deletes your virtual machines -is that true? What's the story with that?

[vbox4me2]

Lets stick to facts, rumors don't get anywhere and doesn't help anyone, if there's a problem we need evidence.

[UltraBreytenBreytenbach]

It seems that the smp + shared folder freezes have gone away (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5017), at least I've had no freeze until now. I still have one issue though that I had before, after some time of compiling (Gentoo guest) the root partition suddenly becomes read only and I have to restart. I do not have this problem in the latest VMWare Workstation release where I have also SMP enabled.

[mphuff]

Lets stick to facts, rumers don't get anywhere and doesn't help anyone, if there's a problem we need evidence.

This is evidence:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=23898
but it looks like the problem was solved by respinning 3.0.10?

[sandervl]

Lets stick to facts, rumers don't get anywhere and doesn't help anyone, if there's a problem we need evidence.

This is evidence:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=23898
but it looks like the problem was solved by respinning 3.0.10?

No, the respin of 3.0.10 solved problems when booting guests without hardware virtualization. How you can conclude that VMs were deleted is quite unclear to me.

[Sasquatch]

Lets stick to facts, rumers don't get anywhere and doesn't help anyone, if there's a problem we need evidence.

This is evidence:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=23898
but it looks like the problem was solved by respinning 3.0.10?

If you read that entire topic, you also saw an "official" note from yours truly. VB never removed VMs without user interaction.

[AntiMatter]

Copy / Paste from Host to Guest not working?

Using latest VirtualBox 3.0.10, Host XP, Guest Win 2003 x32. Copy Paste from Guest to Host = OK. But not the other way around. Can anyone confirm?

[Perryg]

Started messing up in 3.0.8 and still there in 3.0.10
Here is my ticket.
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5266#comment:32

[Etepetete]

I can only confirm that it works.
MarkCranness gave me a short tutorial on what to expect from copy and paste here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 45#p104011 . It might prove interesting reading for you.