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 Respondingto guest IDE flush requests ..............145
11.2 Windowsguests ...............................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 Vistaguests ..............147
11.2.6 Windows guests may cause a high CPUload ...........147
11.3 Linuxguests .................................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 Windowshosts ................................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 Runningan iSC SI initiator and target on a single system . . . . .150
11.5 Linuxhosts ..................................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/grseckernels ..........................153
11.5.9 Linux kernel vmalloc pool exhausted ...............153
11.6 Solarishosts .................................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 Version3.0.0 (2009-06-30) .........................155
12.2 Version2.2.4 (2009-05-29) .........................158
12.3 Version2.2.2 (2009-04-27) .........................160
12.4 Version2.2.0 (2009-04-08) .........................161
12.5 Version2.1.4 (2009-02-16) .........................165
12.6 Version2.1.2 (2009-01-21) .........................167
12.7 Version2.1.0 (2008-12-17) .........................170
12.8 Version2.0.8 (2009-03-10) .........................172
12.9 Version2.0.6 (2008-11-21) .........................173
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