I am a new VirtualBox user. I have VirtualBox 4.1.6 installed on Fedora 16 x86_64 (as an RPM downloaded from VirtualBox.org's yum repository,
Installed Packages
VirtualBox-4.1.x86_64 4.1.6_74713_fedora16-1 @virtualbox
I have two user accounts on the Fedora 16 system, one for myself and one for my friend. Both accounts are in the vboxusers group and both are running VirtualBox vm's. One account is trying to run a Windows 7 Ultimate guest, and that guest has a problem. It appears to lock up unexpectedly and spontaneously, just about 1 minute or so after the guest's user logs into it. I have been logging into the administrative account a lot in order to install software, since this guest is new. I have been using fullscreen mode. Windows 7 "Aero" look is enabled. The whole system appears to lock up about 45-60 seconds after I log in as the user.
I get the impression that much instability began after attempting to install Adobe Flash Player 11.x. The one attempt seems to have failed, but Flash Player was listed in my list of installed programs. I also thought the problem might have been from trying to install VirtualBox "Guest Additions" incorrectly, e.g. while not in Safe Mode. I uninstalled Guest Additions and attempted to reinstall it in Safe Mode, but this failed. At first I used Safe Mode, then I attempted to install under Safe Mode with networking, and this also failed. So I installed Guest Additions with a normal power-on of Windows 7 and that appeared to install successfully...but Windows 7 locks up. Before lockup episodes began, I successfully installed over 100 "Windows Updates" including Windows 7 Service Pack 1.
I looked at the vbox.log file from the most recent (and unsuccessful) session and it seems that the guest is going into suspend mode unexpectedly:
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[rcw7@rachelc5 ~]$ egrep 'WARNING' "VirtualBox VMs"/"Windows 7_R"/Logs/VBox.log
00:00:37.797 Guest Log: VBoxMP::VBoxMPValidateVideoModeParams: WARNING! host does not like special mode 1920x1200:32 for display 0
[rcw7@rachelc5 ~]$ egrep 'SUSPEND' "VirtualBox VMs"/"Windows 7_R"/Logs/VBox.log
00:09:40.657 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'SUSPENDING'.
00:09:40.661 Changing the VM state from 'SUSPENDING' to 'SUSPENDED'.
00:09:48.078 Changing the VM state from 'SUSPENDED' to 'POWERING_OFF'.
Hardware:
Sapphire Radeon HD6970 graphics card
Asus KGPE-D16 motherboard, for Opteron socket G34, dual socket
One (1) AMD Opteron 6174 processor
32 Gb memory
Thanks for all help!
Bob Cochran
