On 03/02/2013 10:55 AM, walt wrote: > On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two different >>> Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host). >>> >>> Luckily, only the most recent snapshot crashed and I was able to >>> boot normally with the second most recent snapshot (both guests). >>> >>> I didn't lose anything important because the only thing I use >>> Windows for is to run Windows Update :) (know thine enemy, etc) >>> >>> Maybe if you have important stuff on a Win7 guest you should make >>> an extra snapshot just before you update to vbox-4.2.8 in case you >>> need to delete the last one. >>> >>> BTW, I had no problems with linux guests so far. >>> >>> >> >> What did the crashes say? > > The usual :) "Windows has encountered a problem and must close..." > > Just now I updated a second gentoo machine that (I thought) is the > same as this one, but I didn't the crashes on that machine, so I don't > know what to think now. I hope nobody else has the same problem.
Crap, I just noticed that virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 won't compile against the latest 3.8.x kernels :( That means I've been using the 4.2.6 kernel odules while running vbox-4.2.8. That might explain the crashes but I can't say for certain. At least it's an excuse :)
