VB 4.3.0 not ready for prime time

[jimoe]

osx 10.8.5

VB 4.3.0 was not ready for GA release.

On osx running a WinXP guest:
- The VM crashes with a red bar across the top of the window. If there is supposed to be text, it never showed (there appears to be black dots in the red, may be trashed text?).
- When is does run, it causes WinXP the thrash for long periods of time, 5 - 15 minutes, using lots of CPU and disk resources. No idea what it is doing.
- Even after the thrashing has settled down, the host usage is 2 -3 times higher, 6-9% than with v4.2.18, 2-4%.

I have attached a log file from one of the crashes. Not much there.

Because of the thrashing and crashing problems, I have reverted to 4.2.18: No thrashing, no crashing.

[jimoe]

I forgot to mention:

VboxService.exe crashes when running as an Adminstrator. I get multiple popups asking if I wish to report the crash to MS. This is not apparent in user accounts.

[socratis]

- The VM crashes with a red bar across the top of the window. If there is supposed to be text, it never showed (there appears to be black dots in the red, may be trashed text?).

I can confirm that this happens with my VM as well. I have not found a way to reproduce it reliably, that's why I haven't filed a bug report. I have not seen the high CPU usage or the other symptoms that you describe.

VboxService.exe crashes when running as an Adminstrator. I get multiple popups asking if I wish to report the crash to MS. This is not apparent in user accounts.

You refer to VBoxService.exe. I suspect you mean at your guest OS, right? Have you updated the GAs?

[Ramshankar]

Boot the VM in safe-mode, try removing the guest additions and see if that makes the VM healthy again. You can even use the 4.2.18 additions until we fix this issue if it turns out to be a guest additions bug.

[jimoe]

VboxService.exe crashes when running as an Adminstrator. I get multiple popups asking if I wish to report the crash to MS. This is not apparent in user accounts.

You refer to VBoxService.exe. I suspect you mean at your guest OS, right? Have you updated the GAs?

Yes, in the guest VM. The VboxService.exe crashes occur with the 4.3.0 version of the Guest Additions. The GA were installed in Safe Mode (to get the 3D graphics option).

[mdilling]

Mac OS X 10.8.5

Windows XP guest

All of the same syptoms as jimoe. Red bar at top of guest screen, guest totally frozen. After a restart or fresh start it would run for a random period of time, then freeze again. Same increased cpu and ram usage. I tried running with an older version of guest additions. The same thing occured. I had to revert back to 4.2.18.

Regards

[velo2k77]

I am seeing issues on 10.6.8 and on 10.9. On 10.6.8 the VM will randomly crash to desktop without any feedback. Other times the VM will just hang. I'm running a win7 32bit vm.

[frcabral]

Hi guys, with my Win XP VM's is happening the same thing.

Red bar on top, guest froze, restart basically give me a few moments and then freeze again.

The only option was revert back to 4.2 because 4.3 is unusable.

Oh, and I'm still on Mountain Lion, I did not upgrade because was uncertain about Mavericks and VirtualBox compatibility at first couple months.

Is it a bug to be fixed on the newer versions or not?

Thanks

Fabio

[michaln]

Is it a bug to be fixed on the newer versions or not?

Please try 4.3.2.