[vbox-dev] serious VDI bug

[Perry Halbert]

I installed Win8 yesterday using VDI, SATA, and it went smoothly
SVN r38746 Debian 7 x86_64 host
Guest additions failed as I expected it would.

I actually installed it two times.  Deleted the entire build and 
installed again to test.


On 09/15/2011 04:40 AM, Alexander eichner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the trim feature does not depend on the SSD flag but is a separate 
> feature which needs to be enabled manually, the default is to disable 
> trim ( everything else is a bug ;) )
>
> Regards,
> Alexander
>
> Am 15.09.2011 um 09:43 schrieb Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com>:
>
>> Note: If you used a VDI file and activated the SSD flag then the SVN
>> code will strip out unused code from the VDI file. As this code is
>> very new then this could be the reason for the problems you observe.
>> Did you enable the SSD-Flag for the drive associated with the VDI
>> file?
>>
>> Kind regwrds,
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> On Thursday 15 September 2011 09:12:18 Frank Mehnert wrote:
>>> Why do you think this is a regression? Did you try to install Windows 8
>>> with an older SVN version?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Frank
>>>
>>> On Thursday 15 September 2011 06:55:08 Huihong Luo wrote:
>>>> might be SATA controller bug too, as it is more stable when using 
>>>> IDE hd
>>>>
>>>> --- On Wed, 9/14/11, Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com>
>>>> Subject: [vbox-dev] serious VDI bug
>>>> To: "VirtualBox developer's list" <vbox-dev at virtualbox.org>
>>>> Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 9:16 PM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> trying to install Windows 8 to vdi image, and it fails randomly. Seems
>>>> recent code changes have introduced a bug to vdi.
>>>> It stops at some random percentage of Windows expanding phase,25%, 
>>>> 96%,
>>>> etc. It never succeeded, tried 5 times with today's SVN code.
>>>> vmdk/vhd works fine.
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