[gentoo-user] Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

2013-03-01 Thread walt 
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

2013-03-01 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan 
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?

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