Virtualbox Guest Crashes Constantly - Now "Guru Meditiation"

[pleasedontcrashagain1999]

My guest machine is crashing constantly. It usually crashes once every other day or so, but it seems like it's getting worse. It has crashed 5 times today already. Now it is in a "Guru Meditation" State, and I can't even boot it. I do have guest additions on.

I cannot attach the log file, because it's over the maximum, and I can't post the pastebin link directly, because it says I must have a post before I do so. The log file is posted at pastebin dot com slash TipsGKG9.

Host: Windows 8.1 64-bit, 8 gigs of ram
Guest: Linux Mint 17.2 32-bit, 1 gig ram (also tried 2 gigs)

[Perryg]

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00:00:06.837673 Console: VM runtime error: fatal=true , errorID=PAEmode message="The guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode which is currently disabled by default in VirtualBox. PAE support can be enabled using the VM settings (System/Processor)"

[pleasedontcrashagain1999]

I disabled PAE once today to see if that was the issue. Then I got the Guru Meditation state. I switched it back off and I could boot up. But it still crashes.

In other words, disabling the PAE may be the cause of the Guru Meditation, but it was crashing before (at least 2x today) without PAE disabled.

[Perryg]

What does the term "crash" mean to you? locks up, reboots, Etc ( be specific )? Post the log after a crash and post it here as an attachment, compress it if it is too large.

[pleasedontcrashagain1999]

Perry,

Sorry, I wasn't being specific. What happens is that the Virtualbox Window disappears without warning. There's no pop up error message. When I open up the virtualbox manager, it just says "aborted" under the name of the machine.

I know one of the crashes was at 1:50 PM EST today. The logs are attached.

Note that that machine has had a number of crashes today, so there may be several indications of crashes in the logs.

[pleasedontcrashagain1999]

The vbox.log.3 file is attached. (It wouldn't let me attach four log files in one post).

[Perryg]

I don't have the time to go through all of your log files looking for an abort. Just post one that happens after the abort.

[pleasedontcrashagain1999]

Sorry, I thought the events were timestamped so you could just go to 1:50 PM today. I will wait until it aborts again and copy the log immediately. Thanks for taking the time to help.

[pleasedontcrashagain1999]

OK, I zipped the logs right after my virtual machine crashed. Same information regarding host and guest as before.

[Perryg]

Logs don't show an issue so it has to be a host side issue either resources or the server side of VirtualBox.

I would first upgrade to 5.0.12 and see if that helps. If not then you would need to post a ticket at bugtracker

I would also look at the hosts event viewer for indications of anything that could have happened on the host side.