need help: working debian VM with 4.2.20 fails on 4.3.x

[ElTopo]

Hi,

I have a Debian 32-bit VB VM running on Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit host with virtualbox 4.2.x

Since the first release of VB 4.3.x, I have been trying to upgrade to 4.3.x (on every official release), however, when loading the VM, VB 4.3.x popped up this error message:

VB 4.3.4 error

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If I downgrade to 4.2.x (4.2.18 or 4.2.20) the VM is working with no problems.

I tried to read the log file but could not figure out what's wrong.

I have 2 VBox log files attached, one is VB 4.3.4 failed log, the other one is VB 4.2.20 OK log.

Can somebody take a look of the attached log files and give some comments? Thanks.

[Perryg]

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00:00:01.395587 Guest OS type: 'Debian'
00:00:01.400995 fHMForced=true - SMP
00:00:01.401020 fHMForced=true - 64-bit guest

It's trying to force 64-bit, probably dues to io/apic being enabled.

Try setting long mode off and see if it helps.

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VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --longmode off

Note: guest must be shut down and not saved state.

[ElTopo]

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00:00:01.395587 Guest OS type: 'Debian'
00:00:01.400995 fHMForced=true - SMP
00:00:01.401020 fHMForced=true - 64-bit guest

It's trying to force 64-bit, probably dues to io/apic being enabled.

Try setting long mode off and see if it helps.

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VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --longmode off

Note: guest must be shut down and not saved state.

Thanks for the reply.

I tried --longmode off, the VM still fails, log file attached.

(PS: I also have another 64-bit ubuntu server VM showing similar problem with 4.3.4 (working with 4.2.20), but I want to fix this 32-bit debian VM first).

[Perryg]

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Guru Meditation 1155 (VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT)

The actual error is shown above. They have changed the way that the bit use works and these messages have been coming in on a regular basis. We have been informed to send these to bugtracker.

[ElTopo]

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Guru Meditation 1155 (VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT)

The actual error is shown above. They have changed the way that the bit use works and these messages have been coming in on a regular basis. We have been informed to send these to bugtracker.

OK I see, there are several bug reports on VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT, so now I just downgrade to 4.2.20.

Thanks.