virtualbox.org

Every time I shutdown a VM, the Virtual Box will crash and I have to click re-open. Below is part of the error message generated by the iMac.

Code: Select all

Process:               VirtualBox [2893]
Path:                  /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox
Identifier:            org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBox
Version:               5.2.22 (5.2.22)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           VirtualBox [2893]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2018-11-17 11:34:52.453 +0800
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.14.1 (18B75)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        E26822CD-39FA-C10B-5B51-57D394237E90


Time Awake Since Boot: 10000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00006b25125b7078
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process:   exc handler [2893]

Does not seem to be a "Windows Guests" question. Moving topic to OS X Hosts.

There are a couple of reports about 10.14 (Mojave) crashing. Nothing solid yet...

I've been having this problem for a few years now, since Yosemite, on my MacBook Pro mid-2014.
I've sent the crash report to Apple a few times, which never made sense. Perhaps the crash report should be redirected to the VirtualBox developers?

I haven't been terribly worried about this problem until today when, whilst running v5.2.12, I was not able to reopen the VirtualBox GUI via the Dock icon until I shutdown all running VMs. It was a bit of an inconvenience as I was in the middle of doing some stuff. So I upgraded to 5.2.22 at the same time.
Under 5.2.12, I've only had one occasion, a couple weeks ago, where a VM didn't shutdown cleanly. It may have been my own doing as I was trying to create a VM using physically attached disks and perhaps did something incorrectly.

[UPDATE}
Well, I spoke too soon about VMs not shutting down cleanly. My U14.04 server triggered a VirtualVM error while shutting down today. I had just made a snapshot and noticed my Mac's fan came on. So I decided to shut it down to see if that would help, which it did. Fortunately I have been able to start it up again and log in.

Cheers,
Nap