VM Aborts during boot on Fedora 11 x86_64 => update F11 package

[Sean Darcy]

I have vbox on Fedora 11 x86_64 with 2 vm's, windows 7 and xp.

I set them up and ran them under 2.2.0. rpm -Uvh --nodeps.

Installed 2.2.2, no problem. One vm - xp - was saved. Started it up, worked fine. Shut it down to change settings to allow VRDP.

But now when I start either vm, I get the bios screen, a message that the vm couldn't find any audio, then it aborts.

I went back and turned off VRDP. Same result.

Attached is the log.

I tried to get a core dump:

As root:

[root@intel64-office ~]# ulimit -c unlimited
[root@intel64-office ~]# echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable
[root@intel64-office ~]# /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox -startvm Windows-XP

The VM boot window showed up, same dialogs, then aborts. But no core dump:

[root@intel64-office ~]# ls
anaconda-ks.cfg  Music      <unknown>-bugreport.txt
Desktop          Pictures   Videos
Documents        Public     Windows-XP-2009-04-28-21-51-54.log
Download         Templates

sean

[Andrew]

I have the exact same problem.

I upgraded to F11 and subsequently upgraded VirtualBox to the F11 version.

I successfully started VirtualBox after the upgrade and managed to start my virtual machine (Windows XP Professional) once. I then restarted it and got an abort. I've not been able to restart the machine despite several attempts at changing settings in the VM.

Rebooting the VirtualMachine puts it in a bad state such that it's impossible to restart again.

Unlike the guy above I did not change any settings, I simply restarted the virtual machine and it corrupted.

I don't get any error messages, it's nothing to do with the audio or the VRDP setting.

[Frank Mehnert]

Cannot reproduce any crash on F11/x86_64. Please could you check ​this page on how to create a core dump? Please contact me by private E-mail if you have something (frank _dot_ mehnert _at_ sun _dot_ com).

[Andrew]

Replying to frank:

Cannot reproduce any crash on F11/x86_64. Please could you check ​this page on how to create a core dump? Please contact me by private E-mail if you have something (frank _dot_ mehnert _at_ sun _dot_ com).

I've sent the core dump by email.

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks asawa. Finally I was reproduce this problem. Happens when booting the VM with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (this happens if this extension is not available).

[Frank Mehnert]

We think we found the problem. That crash seems to be related to gcc-4.4 builds for AMD64 hosts. I've replaced the F11 package, please could you acknowledge that ​this package (not the in the package name) allows you to boot your VMs?

[Frank Mehnert]

s/not the in the package name/note the -2 in the package name/

[Andrew]

I'm at work at the moment but as soon as I get home I'll check it out.

Cheers, Andrew

[Cedric Vivier]

Works for me! :-)

I ve had the exact same issue (FWIW it aborted whether VT-x/AMD-V enabled or not)

Thanks Frank for the quick fix.

[Andrew]

Replying to cedricv:

Works for me! :-)

I ve had the exact same issue (FWIW it aborted whether VT-x/AMD-V enabled or not)

Thanks Frank for the quick fix.

Yep, works for me too.

Many thanks!

[Sean Darcy]

Also WFM.

Thanks.

sean

[Cedric Vivier]

Is this fix present in 2.2.4? Cannot find a reference to it in the ChangeLog.

[Frank Mehnert]

We didn't explicitly mention this in the changelog because the updated F11 package for 2.2.2 fixed this as well. The F11 package for 2.2.4 should work as well of course. Closing.