Ticket #8008 (closed defect: fixed)
UI Frozen on pause
Reported by: | nim | Owned by: | |
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Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.0 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Windows |
Description
It's quite annoying. I did 'yum update' in guest Fedora. There was much disk activities while yum was installing updates.
I selected Pause from File menu and the UI froze that turned to a all-white window.
And it seemed the guest os was dead too because I saw no disk activities then.
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comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by nim
Note - I have encountered about 5-8 crashes and frozen condition for the last one year of using VirtualBox.
That's not bad.
But compared to commercial VMware and Microsoft Virtual PC, 5 times is bad - far from commercial quality.
BTW, I had 0 crashes on VMware and less than 3 crashes on VPC, for a period of more than 3 years.
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by frank
Yes, but complaining does not help us identifying the bug. I still don't see the information I requested.
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by nim
After I aborted the session, restarted and did 'yum update', I want to save the session. But the window froze again, completely unexpected because there was little activities inside the guest os.
comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by nim
Get a frozen UI again.
Last line of log: 00:37:27.235 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'SUSPENDING'.
comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by frank
In that case the guest most likely entered an ACPI sleep state. Disabling the guest power management will fix this issue. You can also prevent this behavior by doing the following:
VBoxManage setextradata VM_NAME \ VBoxInternal/Devices/acpi/0/Config/ PowerS1Enabled 0 VBoxManage setextradata VM_NAME \ VBoxInternal/Devices/acpi/0/Config/ PowerS4Enabled 0
The was a change in behavior with VBox 4.0.0 which will be reverted in the next maintenance release.
Is there a VBox.log file from such a session available?