id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host 6575,New Fixed Hard Disk fails in Ubuntu 9.10,amanda,,"When I try to create a new virtual machine through the GUI, I get as far as the progress meter indicating that ""Create New Virtual Disk: creating fixed hard disk storage unit '/home/amand..."" the progress meter loads at 0% and hangs there. If i hit the red ""x"" button, it reports it is canceling but also makes no progress. It is using a ton of CPU and not getting anywhere. {{{ [0 amanda@luna ~]$ top top - 09:36:05 up 1:57, 2 users, load average: 1.98, 1.93, 1.68 Tasks: 190 total, 3 running, 187 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 7.9%us, 54.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 37.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3056844k total, 2933156k used, 123688k free, 50000k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1907852k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9282 amanda 20 0 22696 6256 4340 S 99 0.2 33:16.19 VBoxSVC 6306 amanda 20 0 353m 145m 25m S 8 4.9 12:04.59 firefox 1315 root 20 0 162m 42m 11m R 7 1.4 4:41.92 Xorg 2643 amanda 20 0 156m 4728 3592 S 3 0.2 1:47.87 pulseaudio 5612 amanda 20 0 402m 135m 23m S 2 4.6 7:41.77 twhirl 2750 amanda 20 0 165m 34m 8288 S 1 1.2 0:32.01 compiz.real 9258 amanda 20 0 111m 35m 21m S 1 1.2 0:49.77 VirtualBox 5559 amanda 20 0 39676 12m 9476 S 1 0.4 0:00.68 gnome-terminal 5606 amanda 20 0 115m 41m 19m S 0 1.4 0:07.64 pidgin 10742 amanda 20 0 87332 29m 13m S 0 1.0 0:03.15 gnome-panel 11283 amanda 20 0 2472 1208 884 R 0 0.0 0:00.06 top 1 root 20 0 2624 1476 1040 S 0 0.0 0:01.33 init }}} Ubuntu: 9:10, File system: ext4. VirtualBox version installed: 3.1.6-59338_Ubuntu_karmic, from the Karmic repository. {{{ http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free }}} I definitely have plenty of space. The drive is meant to be 15G. I've got 49G available: {{{ [0 amanda@luna ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 78G 26G 49G 35% / udev 1.5G 344K 1.5G 1% /dev none 1.5G 1.1M 1.5G 1% /dev/shm none 1.5G 116K 1.5G 1% /var/run none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw none 78G 26G 49G 35% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs /home/amanda/.Private 78G 26G 49G 35% /home/amanda }}} I totally removed VirtualBox and had to restart before I could remove my .VirtualBox/HardDisks directory. Reinstalled and the same thing is happening. ",defect,closed,other,VirtualBox 3.1.6,fixed,,,Windows,Linux