VirtualBox

Opened 16 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#1901 closed defect (fixed)

Huge log files fill up the host file system (PATM: ...) => Fixed in 2.0.4

Reported by: Technologov Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 1.6.4
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description

WARNING: DANGER !!!

VirtualBox 1.6.4 will crash your Windows computer, and render it unbootable !!!

I have been using VirtualBox 1.6.4 for several hours and the log file went up to 6GB (!!!) in size, tooking over my Windows partition, and leaving zero space. Of course, Windows refused to boot after reboot, and crashed with BSOD.

Sun: I really recommend building v1.6.4a as soon as possible.

-Technologov, 2.8.2008.

Change History (11)

comment:1 by Technologov, 16 years ago

Also, setting some maximum number of bytes for log file is a good idea.

It may be configurable in some internal *.ini file, if you want.

-Technologov, 2.8.2008.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 16 years ago

Summary: DANGER !!! VirtualBox 1.6.4 makes your Windows system unbootable !DANGER !!! VirtualBox 1.6.4 makes your Windows system unbootable (huge log files)!

Confirmed.

comment:3 by Sander van Leeuwen, 16 years ago

Host type: Windowsother
Summary: DANGER !!! VirtualBox 1.6.4 makes your Windows system unbootable (huge log files)!Huge log files fill up the host file system

comment:4 by Sander van Leeuwen, 16 years ago

Applies to Linux as well. (hence the change in title) Marked 1956 as a duplicate.

comment:5 by Frank Mehnert, 16 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

comment:6 by Vasileios Lourdas, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: closedreopened

I am using the non-free version of VirtualBox 2.0.2 both for Windows and Linux (x86_64) and I sometimes get huge log files. For example, I've set up an Arch Linux guest vmachine and I get 500MiB of log file. This applies both for Windows and Linux.

Is it safe to delete these log files?

comment:7 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Sure. Do these log files contain of some repeating content? Could you attach a small part of such an log file to this defect?

in reply to:  7 comment:8 by Vasileios Lourdas, 15 years ago

Replying to frank:

Sure. Do these log files contain of some repeating content? Could you attach a small part of such an log file to this defect?

Peaking through the file, there are thousands of lines with the following content:

04:27:44.676 PATM: Disabling IDT e patch handler c0319180 04:27:44.676 PATM: Disabling IDT e patch handler c0319180 04:27:44.676 PATM: Disabling IDT e patch handler c0319180 04:27:44.677 PATM: Disabling IDT e patch handler c0319180

and so on... Only the numbers (I guess it's a timestamp...?) change. These lines fill up the log.

comment:9 by Vasileios Lourdas, 15 years ago

Also, is it a coincidence that in both cases (both Windows and Gentoo Linux as a host) the guest machine is Arch Linux when the log file grows up so big?

comment:10 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Summary: Huge log files fill up the host file systemHuge log files fill up the host file system (PATM: ...) => Fixed in 2.0.4

Yes, the problem with huge log files is guest-related. This problem will be fixed in 2.0.4.

comment:11 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed
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