VB crashes when loading grub

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devian
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VB crashes when loading grub

Post by devian »

Hi everyone,
i searched everywhere on the net and on the forum, but didn't find any solution to my problem... :(
i'm running win7 ultimate N 64 bit and virtual box 3.1.4 (the one on the download page), and installed ubuntu karmic koala as guest.
when I start the virtual machine, virtualbox GUI keeps crashing everytime grub is loading... :(
Can someone help me fixing this problem?

sorry for my bad english....
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Perryg
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Re: VB crashes when loading grub

Post by Perryg »

Post (as an attachment) the guests log file.
It is located in the main GUI under machine, show log
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devian
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Re: VB crashes when loading grub

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ubuntu-2010-02-14-20-38-47.log
(51.4 KiB) Downloaded 25 times
Well here it is... i have four log files, i took the vbox.log.3 one
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Perryg
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Re: VB crashes when loading grub

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Drop the guest memory to 1024MB and try again
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devian
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Re: VB crashes when loading grub

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already tried, but it didn't work... at first i put it 512, it didn't work though... so i tried giving more memory to it, but nothing....

EDIT: tried it again and it does work... but i don't understand why... what's the maximum memory i can give to the virtual machine?
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Perryg
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Re: VB crashes when loading grub

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00:31:04.102 fatal error in recompiler cpu: Trying to execute code with memory type addr_code=000000010000b020 addend=ffffffffda53c000 at 000000010000b26c. (iHandlerMemType=0x38 iMMIOMemType=0x30)
Well I have to get past this error. Try it again with 1024MB and then post that log file.
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Perryg
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Re: VB crashes when loading grub

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Typically it is 1/2 of the available memory.

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00:00:01.557 Host RAM: 4094MB RAM, available: 3345MB
This will change depending on what you have running on the host when you start the guest. But this is what the log file you sent shows. so 1/2 of 3345 or about 1.5GB
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devian
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Re: VB crashes when loading grub

Post by devian »

ok, now i'm updating ubuntu karmic koala. as soon as i can i'll post the log files. :)

Thank you very much for helpin me out, perryg :)

ps.: can i post the log file even if i m currently running virtual box?
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Re: VB crashes when loading grub

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Hey if it is working now don't worry about sending the log file. Wait until you need us again.
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Re: VB crashes when loading grub

Post by frank »

This was a long outstanding bug, see here. It will be fixed in the upcoming 3.2.6 release.
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