My base OS is Win7 and I run a guest operator system of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. My Ubuntu would not boot. Win7 works fine.
Tony > On Feb 4, 2018, at 18:42, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not sure I interpret you comments correctly, but Win2k is my guest; > Ubuntu 16.04 is the host. Ubuntu runs fine. Are you suggesting that I > would need to install the Host to fix the Guest (or VB, whichever is the > culprit)? > > >> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Tony Schlemmer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have window 7 laptop for work and when I tried to upgrade to Virtual Box >> 5.2.6 with a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS it ran for a day. When left work I shutdown >> the VirtualBox. When I tried restarting Ubuntu the next day I got nothing. >> The logs were empty. I had no choice but to create another 40GB partition >> with Ubuntu and down load every again. >> >> Now I have memory card that back everything up on so if it happens again I >> at least have my files. VirtualBox worked perfectly for 6 months. We use >> GIT so I checked in my code changes in daily but I spent about 6 hours >> reinstalling everything. >> >> Tony >> >>> On Feb 4, 2018, at 17:40, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> As soon as I click on start, the computer freezes--no mouse, no keyboard >>> reaction. The power button is all I could find to break the ice. >> Reliably >>> repeatable. The VB logs are empty. >>> >>> My laptop has the same OS (Ubuntu 16.04), same VBox, same win2k guest; >>> works fine. I have tried to compare the settings between the two >> systems, >>> and they are almost alike. What I see different that seems unusual is >> that >>> the desktop system under Storage/IDE controller shows Win2kSP2 Clone.vdi >>> and Empty for the Secondary Master, whereas the laptop shows >>> VboxGuestAdditons_5.0.18.iso I was certain that I installed the guest >>> additions on the desktop. VB had run fine up until this latest >> attempt. I >>> will go looking for the guest additions. >>> >>> I would appreciate ideas on how to investigate this. >>> >>> -Denis >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PLUG mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
