** Description changed:
Experienced complete system lockup and hang on two different machines
when trying to boot a VirtualBox VM running Fedora 29 live (no virtual
disk) when Firefox is open with a few (~5-10) inactive tabs.
System 1:
4GB RAM host
1536MB guest, no virtual disk
swapfile
System 2:
6 GB RAM host
1792MB guest, no virtual disk
separate swap partition (4GB)
- Load Fedora in guest from live ISO
- The entire system locks up for easily 30 minutes or more, with constant
- host disk activity. GNOME shell becomes completely unresponsive.
- Requires closing the lid to attempt force sleep and resume to be able to
- regain access to the applications and GNOME shell. After resuming, VM
- seems to be usable.
+ On boot of the guest (after boot menu), the entire system locks up for
+ easily 30 minutes or more, with constant host disk activity. GNOME shell
+ becomes completely unresponsive, can move the cursor some but
+ interacting doesn't work and the UI shell doesn't respond to mouse
+ hover. Requires closing the lid to attempt force sleep and resume to be
+ able to regain access to the applications and GNOME shell. After
+ resuming, VM seems to be usable.
Seems like the system is running low on memory but not
handling/terminating applications, and thrashing, and/or there are bad
memory leaks happening when booting the VM.
Expected behaviour:
Runs normally or fails out of memory without locking up the entire system.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: virtualbox 5.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jan 2 22:16:38 2019
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-13 (203 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
- TERM=xterm-256color
- PATH=(custom, no user)
- XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
- LANG=en_US.UTF-8
- SHELL=/bin/bash
+ TERM=xterm-256color
+ PATH=(custom, no user)
+ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
+ LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+ SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Also affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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System completely hangs, high disk I/O when running a VirtualBox VM
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