On 2018-04-11, Richard Toohey <richardjtoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/11/18 10:50, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2018-04-10, csszep <css...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I installed the latest 04.10 snapshot, the install procedure went fine, but >>> after reboot the VM stucks at endless boot loop . >>> >>> It prints only the "booting hda0:/bsd" line.. before reboot >>> >>> The 04.03 snapshot works fine. >>> >>> There is a similar experience for someone with Virtualbox 5.2.8? >>> >> There's a recent bootloader problem, possibly following the update >> to clang 6, that affects some machines. I suspect this might be >> involved here. > Ah, that might (?) explain what was happening to me with a Lenovo > Thinkpad X1 Carbon? > > Not a VM. > > Stuck in an endless boot loop, with a flash of a "heap full" message > before the next reboot. > > Tried the same snapshot on an older Thinkpad and no issues. > > Looked like it was a possible SSD problem (from what I could find in the > archives), so I tried the 6.3 installer and that was fine. > > Repeated the snapshot install and got back into the endless rebooting.
"heap full" is the known failure mode but I suspect that Virtualbox might have a slightly different failure but due to the same issue.
