OPENSTEP 4.2 guest doesn't completely startup anymore after updating VirtualBox from version 2.0.6 to 2.1.0 or 2.1.2 => fixed in SVN

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

I used to run an OPENSTEP 4.2 guest in version 2.0.6 of VirtualBox. After updating at first to version 2.1.0 and today to 2.1.2 I am no longer able to completely boot up the OPENSTEP guest. The booting is almost complete, just the login screen does never appear, I get just a grey screen with a moveable mouse pointer. I had to revert the update, so now I am using version 2.0.6 again, I was lucky to have backups.

See the attached screenshots of what is happening and of what I am expected to happen.

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

This is what happens on VirtualBox 2.1.0 and 2.1.2 - a hang after boot up - no login screen

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

This is what I expected: a login screen appears about two seconds after the grey screen under Virtual Box 2.0.6

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

This is what it looks like after login on VirtualBox 2.0.6 (to prove it really works)

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

the log file out of /Library/VirtualBox/Machines/OPENSTEP 4.2/Logs/

[Nikolay Igotti]

Are there freely available demo ISO of OpenStep in question? Otherwise we cannot reproduce nor fix the issue.

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

OPENSTEP 4.2 is practically abandonware, it's no longer sold by Apple but available from time to time on Ebay (that's how I got my copy) and here: ​http://www.blackholeinc.com/specials/survey.shtml .

I can offer you to upload an freshly installed OPENSTEP 4.2.vdi (fixed size 2GB vdi but maybe less when compressed) on a place you specify for your debugging purposes if that's o.k. for you.