VirtualBox crashes when entering a WebEx meeting

[Panos Kavalagios]

VirtualBox with Windows XP guest in a Fedora 17 host crashes when you enter a meeting in WebEx.

[Frank Mehnert]

Does this also happen with 3D disabled?

[Panos Kavalagios]

I have re-installed the Guest Additions without 3D support. I didn't know how to disabled them differently. I have tried a test webex session, with sharing desktop as well and no problem observed. We can say that it is not reproduced with 3D disabled. This is a workaround and not a solution right?

With 3D enabled it is also reproduced on Fedora 18 that is my system nowadays.

[Frank Mehnert]

Disabling 3D can be done simply by turning off the appropriate VM setting. No need to install the Guest Additions without 3D support.

[Panos Kavalagios]

OK thank you. I didn't know that it was enough to perform that change only from the VM settings. Let me know if you also need to test that case as well.

[Frank Mehnert]

Everything should also work with 3D enabled but never activate 3D for a guest unless you really need it. With 3D enabled, more environment is used, including the host 3D graphics drivers which often have bugs. But I don't want to speculate here if the bug is in your host driver or in VBox. At least I cannot reproduce the crash here but I probably have different hardware + corresponding host drivers.

[Panos Kavalagios]

The issue is reproduced in 4.2.8 as well. I have a core file of 190MB ready. Please, let me know how it should be delivered. Should we use ftp.oracle.com?

Edit: We may update the ticket versions to 4.2.8 and Fedora 18 OS.

[Panos Kavalagios]

The core file pinpoints the following:

Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment MS Windows XP --startvm 576595a1-31da-'.
Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.
#0  0x00007f45c83d5a29 in _mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_general ()
   from /lib64/libdricore9.0.1.so.1

[Frank Mehnert]

Yes, please upload the core dump to ftp.oracle.com:/appsdev/incoming and tell me via private email to frank _dot_ mehnert _at_ oracle _dot_ com the file name. Please also upload the corresponding VBox.log file (or attach it to this ticket).

[Panos Kavalagios]

The requested information was sent with the following details:

Subject: Core file for Ticket #1137 VirtualBox crashes when entering a WebEx meeting
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:16:03 +0200

[Panos Kavalagios]

The problem still persists in 4.2.18

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.