VirtualBox

Opened 14 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#6447 closed defect (fixed)

Guest freezes every 10 seconds or so in Ubuntu 9.10

Reported by: Fernando Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 3.1.6
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Linux

Description

I am using Virtualbox 3.1.6 in Ubuntu 9.10

Any virtual machine I install keeps on freezing every 10 or 20 seconds. The guest freezes, not the host.

Attachments (5)

VBox.log (47.4 KB ) - added by Fernando 14 years ago.
dmesg.txt (3.0 KB ) - added by Fernando 14 years ago.
dmesg of virtual machine
cpuinfo.txt (1.4 KB ) - added by Fernando 14 years ago.
host's cpuinfo
config-2.6.31-20-generic (108.8 KB ) - added by Fernando 14 years ago.
config-2.6.31-20-generic-pae (108.8 KB ) - added by Fernando 14 years ago.

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Change History (18)

by Fernando, 14 years ago

Attachment: VBox.log added

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Do you know if this is a regression, that is, did you ever install an older version of VBox and did you observe the same problem? Which host hardware is that?

comment:2 by Fernando, 14 years ago

I had the same problem with version 3.1.6

What do you want to know about the hardware? It is an AMD...

by Fernando, 14 years ago

Attachment: dmesg.txt added

dmesg of virtual machine

comment:3 by Fernando, 14 years ago

Sorry, I meant that I had the same problem with version 3.1.4

by Fernando, 14 years ago

Attachment: cpuinfo.txt added

host's cpuinfo

comment:4 by Fernando, 14 years ago

I have fixed it by adding clocksource=acpi_pm to my kernel boot options, which means to /etc/default/grub inside GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT.

comment:5 by Fernando, 14 years ago

It did not fix it, the freezes are back and the errors in dmesg too.

comment:6 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Really strange and I have no idea. Does installing the guest additions into that guest change anything? Any chance to test another guest?

comment:7 by Fernando, 14 years ago

I finally found a solution. I was using a PAE kernel, and all the guests were having the same problem.

I installed the generic kernel in the host, and now virtualbox works fine.

Is it normal to have problems with PAE kernels and virtualbox?

comment:8 by Fernando, 14 years ago

Alhtough I have a laptop with PAE kernel and virtualbox works fine... Maybe it is the combination of PAE and AMD that does not work well...

comment:9 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

It is very unlikely that the PAE feature is the problem. Could you attach the kernel configs of both kernels to this defect?

comment:10 by Fernando, 14 years ago

What are the kernel configs?

comment:11 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

That depends on your Linux distribution but this is usually the file /boot/config-KERNEL_VERSION.

by Fernando, 14 years ago

Attachment: config-2.6.31-20-generic added

by Fernando, 14 years ago

comment:12 by Frank Mehnert, 13 years ago

Still relevant with VBox 4.0.4?

comment:13 by Frank Mehnert, 13 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

No response, closing.

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