Contents

 

 

11 Troubleshooting

 

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11.1

General

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11.1.1

Collecting debugging information

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11.1.2

Guest shows IDE errors for VDI on slow host file system . . . . . 144

 

11.1.3 Responding to guest IDE flush requests

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11.2

Windows guests

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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

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11.2.4 How to record bluescreen information from Windows guests

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11.2.5 No networking in Windows Vista guests

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11.2.6 Windows guests may cause a high CPU load

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11.3

Linux guests

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11.3.1 Linux guests may cause a high CPU load

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11.3.2

AMD Barcelona CPUs

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11.3.3 Buggy Linux 2.6 kernel versions

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11.4

Windows hosts

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11.4.1 VBoxSVC out-of-process COM server issues

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11.4.2 CD/DVD changes not recognized

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11.4.3 Sluggish response when using Microsoft RDP client . . .

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11.4.4 Running an iSCSI initiator and target on a single system .

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11.5

Linux hosts

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11.5.1 Linux kernel module refuses to load

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11.5.2 Linux host CD/DVD drive not found

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11.5.3

Linux host CD/DVD drive not found (older distributions)

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11.5.4 Linux host floppy not found

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11.5.5 Strange guest IDE error messages when writing to CD/DVD .

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11.5.6

VBoxSVC IPC issues

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11.5.7

USB not working

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11.5.8

PAX/grsec kernels

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11.5.9 Linux kernel vmalloc pool exhausted

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11.6

Solaris hosts

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11.6.1 Cannot start VM, not enough contiguous memory . . . .

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11.6.2

VM aborts with out of memory errors on Solaris 10 hosts

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12 Change log

 

 

155

12.1

Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)

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12.2

Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)

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12.3

Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)

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12.4

Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)

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12.5

Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)

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12.6

Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)

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12.7

Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)

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12.8

Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)

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12.9

Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)

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