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need help: working debian VM with 4.2.20 fails on 4.3.x
Posted: 2. Dec 2013, 22:52
by 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.
Re: need help: working debian VM with 4.2.20 fails on 4.3.x
Posted: 2. Dec 2013, 23:09
by 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.
Re: need help: working debian VM with 4.2.20 fails on 4.3.x
Posted: 3. Dec 2013, 00:21
by ElTopo
Perryg wrote:Code: Select all
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).
Re: need help: working debian VM with 4.2.20 fails on 4.3.x
Posted: 3. Dec 2013, 00:28
by 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.
Re: need help: working debian VM with 4.2.20 fails on 4.3.x
Posted: 5. Dec 2013, 00:10
by ElTopo
Perryg wrote:Code: Select all
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.