Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0 - Manual (Page 6)

Contents
11 Troubleshooting 144
11.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
11.1.1 Collecting debugging information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
11.1.2 Guest shows IDE errors for VDI on slow host file system . . . . . 144
11.1.3 Responding to guest IDE flush requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
11.2 Windows guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
11.2.1 Windows bluescreens after changing VM configuration . . . . . 146
11.2.2 Windows 0x101 bluescreens with SMP enabled (IPI timeout) . . 146
11.2.3 Windows 2000 installation failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
11.2.4 How to record bluescreen information from Windows guests . . 147
11.2.5 No networking in Windows Vista guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
11.2.6 Windows guests may cause a high CPU load . . . . . . . . . . . 147
11.3 Linux guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
11.3.1 Linux guests may cause a high CPU load . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
11.3.2 AMD Barcelona CPUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
11.3.3 Buggy Linux 2.6 kernel versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
11.4 Windows hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
11.4.1 VBoxSVC out-of-process COM server issues . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
11.4.2 CD/DVD changes not recognized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
11.4.3 Sluggish response when using Microsoft RDP client . . . . . . . 149
11.4.4 Running an iSCSI initiator and target on a single system . . . . . 150
11.5 Linux hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
11.5.1 Linux kernel module refuses to load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
11.5.2 Linux host CD/DVD drive not found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
11.5.3 Linux host CD/DVD drive not found (older distributions) . . . . 151
11.5.4 Linux host floppy not found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
11.5.5 Strange guest IDE error messages when writing to CD/DVD . . . 151
11.5.6 VBoxSVC IPC issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
11.5.7 USB not working . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
11.5.8 PAX/grsec kernels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
11.5.9 Linux kernel vmalloc pool exhausted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
11.6 Solaris hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
11.6.1 Cannot start VM, not enough contiguous memory . . . . . . . . 154
11.6.2 VM aborts with out of memory errors on Solaris 10 hosts . . . . 154
12 Change log 155
12.1 Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
12.2 Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
12.3 Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
12.4 Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
12.5 Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
12.6 Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
12.7 Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
12.8 Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
12.9 Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
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