VirtualBox

Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#9897 closed defect

Frequent panics on Mac OS X when shutting down/starting VMs. — at Version 12

Reported by: jglogan Owned by:
Component: VM control Version: VirtualBox 4.1.6
Keywords: panic Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Mac OS X

Description (last modified by Frank Mehnert)

After the 4.1.4 upgrade, I've seen frequent system panics around VM startup/shutdown time. I'm running

Details, including multiple crash dump summaries, are in https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=45387. Others in the thread have reported the issue on OS X 10.7 also.

Change History (29)

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Latest crash report file.

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 12 years ago

So your problems started after the upgrade to VBox 4.1.4 (not 4.1.6), is that correct?

comment:2 by jglogan, 12 years ago

Yes, that is true. The problem became noticeably frequent after my 4.1.4 upgrade, and upgrading to 4.1.6 did not seem to impact the frequency one way or the other.

comment:3 by jglogan, 12 years ago

Occurred again just after shutdown of 10.04LTS VM, attaching another panic file.

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Panic occurred about 5-10 sec after VM transitioned to stopped state in VirtualBox Manager.

comment:4 by jglogan, 12 years ago

One thing I'm noticing is that I'm not seeing the panic if I only have one virtual machine running and I shut it down, start it up, shut it down, and so on. It only seems to occur if I have two or more VMs running and I shut one down.

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Another post-shutdown panic.

comment:5 by jglogan, 12 years ago

Additional comments on the forum thread indicate that the issue might present itself only when installed RAM > 4GB.

comment:6 by Scott Heffner, 12 years ago

I am having the same issue with 4.1.4, running on an Xserve with 12 GB of RAM, 10.6.8. I have two VMs, one Linux and the other Windows Server 2003. The kernel panic occurs when I shut one of the VMs down while the other is running. The problem does not occur when I restart a VM.

by Scott Heffner, 12 years ago

Kernel Panic after shutting down Windows 2003 VM

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Panic on 12/12.

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Hooray...two panics in one hour!

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Switched to Ubuntu 11.10 guest, panic still happening.

comment:7 by roamdad, 12 years ago

Mac OS X V10.7.2, 8GB 1333 Mhz Core I7. Original VBox 4.1.6 install and migrating from vmware. After 6 panics while migrating 32 and 64 bit guest VMs, downgraded to 4.0.14 r74382 suggested in other kernel panic threads. Rock steady in 4.0.14. Tried eliminating dual guest cpu and IO APIC, but still kernel panics. Last 3 panics were definitely on shutdown of guest machines.

by roamdad, 12 years ago

Panic dump with VirtualBox as last thread

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Crash occurred with 4.1.8.

comment:8 by Hank Roberts, 12 years ago

See also: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9359 (same issue) and: System instability - OS X kernel panics - with 4.1.4?

Seems pretty clear the problem started after 4.0.14 and persists for some of us. VBox 4.1.x through the current one More than one VM open Panic when one closes Not reproducible or consistent from what's in the blog post reports.

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Another 4.1.8 crash

by jglogan, 12 years ago

4.1.8 crash

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Another 4.1.8 crash :|

by skoczko, 12 years ago

Kernel panic log

comment:9 by skoczko, 12 years ago

Same situation here - kernel panic when shutting down debian6 or centos5 VMs. Kernel panic log attached.

virtualbox 4.1.8 OS X 10.6.8

comment:10 by jglogan, 12 years ago

One thing that I have noticed is that if I run two Ubuntu 11.10 VMs concurrently, one 1GB and one 512MB, I have yet to see the problem.

When I have seen the problem in the past, it is when I am running my dev VM (Ubuntu 11.10, 3GB base memory) and a 1GB Ubuntu 11.10 test VM.

This smells like a page table issue; wonder if there's a 32bit-ism somewhere that's causing this.

by jglogan, 12 years ago

4.1.8 crash, shutting down 512MB VM while running 1GB VM

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Another crash.

by jglogan, 12 years ago

Crash on shutdown of VM with no other VMs running.

comment:11 by Tino Wu, 12 years ago

Same here for VirtualBox 4.1.10 on OS X 10.7.3.

comment:12 by Frank Mehnert, 12 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

Still no clue. It could be also related to 3D acceleration so it would be interesting if this host panics occur with disabled 3D (in VM settings) as well. And we are also interested in getting more crash logs, if possible for VirtualBox 4.1.10.

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