[PLUG] Virtual Box hard crashes desktop system
Tony Schlemmer
aschlemm at comcast.net
Mon Feb 5 01:58:35 UTC 2018
I have window 7 laptop for work and when I tried to upgrade to Virtual Box 5.2.6 with a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS it ran for a day. When left work I shutdown the VirtualBox. When I tried restarting Ubuntu the next day I got nothing. The logs were empty. I had no choice but to create another 40GB partition with Ubuntu and down load every again.
Now I have memory card that back everything up on so if it happens again I at least have my files. VirtualBox worked perfectly for 6 months. We use GIT so I checked in my code changes in daily but I spent about 6 hours reinstalling everything.
Tony
> On Feb 4, 2018, at 17:40, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As soon as I click on start, the computer freezes--no mouse, no keyboard
> reaction. The power button is all I could find to break the ice. Reliably
> repeatable. The VB logs are empty.
>
> My laptop has the same OS (Ubuntu 16.04), same VBox, same win2k guest;
> works fine. I have tried to compare the settings between the two systems,
> and they are almost alike. What I see different that seems unusual is that
> the desktop system under Storage/IDE controller shows Win2kSP2 Clone.vdi
> and Empty for the Secondary Master, whereas the laptop shows
> VboxGuestAdditons_5.0.18.iso I was certain that I installed the guest
> additions on the desktop. VB had run fine up until this latest attempt. I
> will go looking for the guest additions.
>
> I would appreciate ideas on how to investigate this.
>
> -Denis
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