Crash when trying to play Braid game

[Rohan Dhruva]

I use VirtualBox PUEL 3.0.0 on Linux guest (Ubuntu 8.04). In Windows XP guest, I have the guest additions installed in safe mode, as instructed by the manual, with Direct3D enabled during instal.

Before VirtualBox versions 3.0.0, whenever I tried to play the game Braid, a black screen would appear, and then close, as if the game was unable to initialize. I was dropped back to the desktop of the guest. However, from 3.0.0 onwards, the complete guest machine crashes. The VirtualBox gui shows the virtual machine as "Aborted". I am attaching my VBox.log for the machine. The log, however, does not show any indication of the crash.

[Rohan Dhruva]

VBox.log for linux host, windows xp guest

[Rohan Dhruva]

On Windows 7 host, the behaviour is similar to previous versions - the game itself fails to initialize, dropping me back to the guest desktop. The guest machine itself does not crash.

[Rohan Dhruva]

The same happens on VBox 3.0.2 PUEL with Kubuntu 8.04.

[Rohan Dhruva]

I noticed a message I got in dmesg:

[ 392.895949] VirtualBox[6892]: segfault at 00000004 eip b5361135 esp b540cc90 error 4

I don't know what to make of it, or how do I debug further.

[Frank Mehnert]

This message means that the VirtualBox process crashed at some point. If this still happens when you use the latest release (VBox 3.0.6) then you could contact me at frank _dot_ mehnert _at_ sun _dot_ com to provide me a ​core dump.

[Rohan Dhruva]

Fortunately, VBox doesn't crash any more with 3.0.6 release. However, I still can't play the game - it hangs at a black screen.