[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#655202: virtualbox: Win7 64bit guest frequently locks up/crashes 32bit host

Mathias Teikari m47iast at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 08:00:50 UTC 2012


Package: virtualbox

Dear Maintainer,

Since upgrading from squeeze to wheezy, virtualbox frequently completely locks
up or crashes the host system. Most of the time, the guest doesn't complete the
bootup sequence before the whole (host) system crashes and reboots or
completely locks up, but occasionally the guest can run OK for some time. This
affects at least virtualbox versions 4.1.6 and 4.1.8. When the issue occurs, the
VBox.log file is empty.

mathias at mathiast-wheezy:~/VirtualBox VMs/Q-Free Win 7$ ls -l Logs/
total 252
-rw------- 1 mathias mathias 84187 Jan  7 23:24 VBox.log
-rw------- 1 mathias mathias     0 Jan  6 10:46 VBox.log.1          <===!
-rw------- 1 mathias mathias 84534 Jan  5 21:13 VBox.log.2
-rw------- 1 mathias mathias 84506 Jan  5 21:10 VBox.log.3


The affected host machine is a Lenovo ThinkPad X200s and the guest is a fairly
standard Win7 64bit system with pretty much only MS office on it.

As this system (host/guest combo) has been rock solid for over a year with
squeeze, I have dug a little bit deeper and found it only to affect the 3.x
series kernel used in wheezy.

I have recompiled vboxdrv.ko from virtualbox versions 4.1.6 and 4.1.8 for use
with linux kernel image 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (2.6.32-38) from squeeze, and when
installing that kernel with the recompiled vboxdrv module on the (otherwise
"pure" wheezy) system the problem does not seem to be reproducible. Both host
and guest are then stable.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
 APT prefers unstable
 APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox depends on:
ii  adduser          3.113
ii  libc6            2.13-24
ii  libcurl3         7.23.1-3
ii  libgcc1          1:4.6.2-11
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.46-3
ii  libpython2.7     2.7.2-9
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.14-6.4
ii  libssl1.0.0      1.0.0e-3
ii  libstdc++6       4.6.2-11
ii  libvncserver0    0.9.8.2-2
ii  libx11-6         2:1.4.4-4
ii  libxcursor1      1:1.1.12-1
ii  libxext6         2:1.3.0-3
ii  libxml2          2.7.8.dfsg-5.1
ii  libxmu6          2:1.1.0-3
ii  libxt6           1:1.1.1-2
ii  python           2.7.2-9
ii  python-central   0.6.17
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  7.11.2-1
ii  libqt4-opengl             4:4.7.4-2
ii  libqtcore4                4:4.7.4-2
ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.7.4-2
ii  virtualbox-dkms           4.1.8-dfsg-1
ii  virtualbox-qt             4.1.8-dfsg-1

Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
ii  vde2                            <none>
ii  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso  4.1.8-1


Regards,
--

Mathias Teikari
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