[vbox-dev] vbox-dev Digest, Vol 16, Issue 10

[JD]

Please see the answers to your questions
embedded in your message below.

Original Message:

Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:52:30 +0300
From: "Dmitry A. Kuminov" <dmik at innotek.de>
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Starting the virtual machine  0%
To: VirtualBox developer's list <vbox-dev at virtualbox.org>
Message-ID: <47B6C06E.6060606 at innotek.de>
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JD wrote:

> I installed VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_fedora7-1.x86_64.rpm
> on my fedora 7 with amd64 cpu, kernel 2.6.23.14-64.fc7

...

> I start the machine, and I get the console screen (black) and a small
> progress bar banner pops up saying: Starting the virtual machine  0%
> and it stays there. *Nothing happens afterwards*.
>
> So, I gdb'ed the running processes of vbox, and the file is attached.
> Could someone help me gat past this issue?

1. Can you move this progress bar banner around?

   YES

2. Can you still use the main (VM Selector) window while this is 
happening? E.g., open the File->Preferences dialog.

   YES

Anyway, please try to change the Qt theme (style) to see if that helps.

There is nothing in the drop down menus that will let
me change the Qt theme.
Why do you think the Qt theme has any impact
on the progress of the VM startup? If there
were a problem with the Qt libs, would not the 
gui itself freeze or malfunction?

P.S. When posting the stack trace, it makes sense to do it for all 
threads in all relevant processes. Yes, it's a bit of work, but VBox is 
multi-threaded.

I DID include the stack trace of ALL threads!! Namely:

/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
/usr/lib/virtualbox//VBoxSVC --automate
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox -comment fedora8i386 -startvm 447d9d9f-69a9-458d-55b2

What was missing?