[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#767383: virtualbox: Window 7 VM crashes on boot [regression]

Ralf Jung post at ralfj.de
Fri Oct 31 13:50:49 UTC 2014


Hi,

> This is weird given the fact that I am using a Windows 7 VM running
> absolutely fine.
> 
> Couple of questions:
> 
> 1) Are you, by any chance, using the Experimental 3D driver ? There are
> other reports, when using that driver.

I never wanted to use it, and both the 3D and the video acceleration are
currently disabled.

> 2) From your error logs (dmesg), it looks like the guest drivers were
> inaccessible. Did you reboot your kernel after the update ?

Yes.

> 3) Is the virtualbox init service running ? That service is supposed to
> set up the necessary environment.

I did not take any measures to prevent it from running. I'm using
systemd. I can try again and see whether the virtualbox service is in a
weird state.

Kind regards
Ralf



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