Steven Davies-Morris wrote: > I'm running an AMD Athlon X2 dual core 5200+ processor with 4gb of > RAM. When I start the Vbox (non OSE) virtual I typically give it > 1.5gb. It's been running great with hardly any issues for several > months other than Explorer sometimes locking up for no good reason. > > > This morning on a whim, seeing that there's a 2.0.0 out there and I > missed the 1.6.6 revision, I decided to upgrade. Since then my > virtual windows has crashed into the blue screen of death five > times while doing usenet downloads using Newsbin (which has been > very stable on this platform until today). If I leave it sitting on > the desktop doing nothing happens, as I'd hope would be the case. > > So I uninstalled the 2.0.0 Vbox, then reinstalled it, did a chkdsk > c: /F in case there was any MFT corruption (none), then reloaded > the 2.0.0 guest additions. But it keeps blowing up in the same way. > > > Has anyone else experienced this kind of blue screen crash since > 2.0.0 was released? If so, what did you do about it? Are you still > on 2.0.0, and if so are you living with intermittent failure, or > have you just returned to an earlier revision? (i.e. 1.6.6 or > 1.5.4) > > On the whole I'm impressed with the stability and functionality of > the Vbox product. It does what I want when I need to go into > Windows. But right now I'm cursing myself and hitting my head with > a hammer for not letting sleeping dogs lie/fixing something that > wasn't broken!
I wound up downgrading from 2.0.0 to 1.6.6 and the issues I had went away. I removed a tag and a block of code from the XML file that controlled my WinXP virtual machine. Here's a link to the instructions for doing that: <http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=9082&sid=a6e6c4d7be28f188ddcc3307d1d2f77f> So for now, if you have an app that really pushes the video driver, you might want to stick with 1.6.6 stable release instead of upgrading to the 2.0.0 release. -- Cheers, SDM -- a 21st Century Schizoid Man Systems Theory internet music project: <www.systemstheory.net> on MySpace: <www.myspace.com/systemstheory> on Last FM: <www.last.fm/music/Systems+Theory> get "Codetalkers" *free* at <www.mikedickson.org.uk/codetalkers> NP: nothing _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
