VirtualBox

Opened 16 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

#1132 closed defect (fixed)

Crash/Hang in Vista Business Host

Reported by: Jason Piskiel Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 1.5.4
Keywords: IBM Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet Wireless Radio Crash Hang Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description

Windows Vista Business hangs and becomes completely unresponsive when running a virtual machine (in this case, running Fedora 7) when the wireless radios are powered on. The VM runs normally when the wireless radios are powered off.

I am attaching a zip file containing the log files that are in the [user/.virtualbox/machines/machinename/logs] directory.

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all-logs.zip (19.1 KB ) - added by Jason Piskiel 16 years ago.
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Change History (10)

by Jason Piskiel, 16 years ago

Attachment: all-logs.zip added

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comment:1 by chauser, 16 years ago

I observe the same behavior on my x61 tablet. The guest in this case is Ubuntu 7.10 and the freeze occurs after selecting the OS from the Grub menu but before anything beyond Starting up... appears on the console.

Interestingly, I have the same behavior with andLinux -- radio off, no problem; radio on, vista freezes within a second or two of starting andLinux.

in reply to:  1 comment:2 by chauser, 16 years ago

I was able to cure this for both andLinux and virtualBox by installing the latest drivers from the Intel website for the 3945ABG wireless card. The version that works is 11.5.0.32. This was not found by vista when I asked it to search the internet for updated drivers. I had to go to the www.intel.com and find the driver zip file to download.

I notice that there are many complaints in various forums about the drivers for this card with some alleging that newer drivers are worse than old. I suggest creating a restore point before installing in case you don't like the new driver. It seems to be working fine for me in <1hr of use.

Replying to chauser:

I observe the same behavior on my x61 tablet. The guest in this case is Ubuntu 7.10 and the freeze occurs after selecting the OS from the Grub menu but before anything beyond Starting up... appears on the console.

Interestingly, I have the same behavior with andLinux -- radio off, no problem; radio on, vista freezes within a second or two of starting andLinux.

comment:3 by Sander van Leeuwen, 16 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

Looks like a wireless driver problem according to the comments above. Closing.

comment:4 by jrave, 16 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: closedreopened

I would like to reopen the ticket as I have the same Problem. I tried upgrading my Wireless Driver to Version 12.0.0.82 but it still doesn't work. My Setup is basically the same except that I am working with an 4965AG card. Hopefully there is a solution.

comment:5 by Sander van Leeuwen, 16 years ago

Do you use NAT or host interface networking in the guest? Include your VBox.log here please.

comment:6 by jrave, 16 years ago

I am using NAT-Networking and included my latest vbox.log . I hope there is some information in there to solve this problem. I am not allowed to attach a file so I posted it there: http://pastebin.com/f4e458855

comment:7 by Frank Mehnert, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

Please reopen if this problem persists with VirtualBox 2.2.0.

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

Replying to frank:

Please reopen if this problem persists with VirtualBox 2.2.0.

Hooray -- I downloaded 2.2.0 and VirtualBox is now usable on my X61 with the wireless turned on. Thanks!

comment:9 by Sander van Leeuwen, 15 years ago

This was probably fixed in 2.1.4. Thanks for the confirmation.

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