Opened 16 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#1951 closed defect (fixed)
Ubuntu 8.04 host, Windows XP guest, video screen gets corrupted
| Reported by: | Doug Roberts | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 1.6.4 |
| Keywords: | Video screen corrupt. locked | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
For no apparent, repeatable reason, the video screen turns mostly black with colored sprinkles (kind of pretty, actually, but useless ;-{)
The result is that VB is locked and a reboot is required. Usually the corruption occured as I was moving the mouse over a window boundary in the XP guest, say from Outlook to Firefox. This happens within the first 15 minutes of trying to use the virtual XP guest.
Host: roberts@igor:~$ uname -a Linux igor 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 21:01:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux roberts@igor:~$
--Doug
Attachments (1)
Change History (9)
by , 16 years ago
| Attachment: | vbox-corrupt-screen.png added |
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comment:2 by , 16 years ago
Never seen that. Can you attach the VBox.log file of such a session after the corruption happend?
comment:3 by , 16 years ago
If this issue is quite reproducible - could you please try to run XP machine with 'image' & 'sdl' modes to let me know if this is some separate mode related bug or appears both in sdl & image modes.
For running VirtualBox in each mode use such commands: VirtualBox -rmode image -startvm <Your VM name without angle brackets> VirtualBox -rmode sdl -startvm <Your VM name without angle brackets>
Thank you in advance.
comment:4 by , 16 years ago
Brr, incredible weird tracker's formatter, sorry...
Image mode: VirtualBox -rmode image -startvm <Your VM name without angle brackets>
Sdl mode: VirtualBox -rmode sdl -startvm <Your VM name without angle brackets>
comment:5 by , 16 years ago
Well, I was able to reproduce the problem in sdl mode, but not image mode. That does not prove that the problem only occurs in sdl mode: there does not seem to be any one action that causes the video to become corrupted. I'll go back to image mode again and try some more.
--Doug
comment:6 by , 16 years ago
I still cannot make the video go corrupt in image mode.
I'll go back to sdl mode, corrupt the video, and send the VBox.log.
--Doug
comment:7 by , 16 years ago
How bizarre. No what I do now, I cannot make the video go corrupt in sdl mode. I made one change to my virtual machine: I added a virtual drive. I'll take that back out and see if I can get it to crash again.
--Doug
Screen grab of the corrupt VBox guest