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#1 2010-09-03 12:55:03
- jlacroix
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[SOLVED] Virtualbox VM Hard Locks Entire Machine
This is a very strange issue. I have a Windows 7 VM that I use for school. Last week, it was working just fine. However, today whenever I start the VM, my entire laptop hard locks. It locks so hard that I cannot switch to a TTY, the mouse cursor is froze, the screen stops, it's locked up HARD and the only thing I can do is forcefully turn it off.
This VM is critical for me, is there any way to get this working again?
Edit: I forgot to mention I tried rebuilding the kernel modules and restarting.
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#2 2010-09-03 19:15:33
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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox VM Hard Locks Entire Machine
same here... must be last kernel update
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#3 2010-09-03 19:19:28
- llawwehttam
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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox VM Hard Locks Entire Machine
When it next locks up could you try reisub and see if that works?
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#4 2010-09-03 19:22:24
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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox VM Hard Locks Entire Machine
My XP Virtualbox still works fine after all recent updates. If there is an issue maybe it's Win 7 specific?
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#5 2010-09-03 19:23:02
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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox VM Hard Locks Entire Machine
the only issue that can be is to recompile the modules and reload them.
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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#6 2010-09-03 19:58:07
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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox VM Hard Locks Entire Machine
It looks like rebuilding virtualbox_bin from AUR solved it. I wonder if it's possible to find out what happened, so I can avoid this from happening again?
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#7 2010-09-03 20:33:35
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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox VM Hard Locks Entire Machine
It looks like rebuilding virtualbox_bin from AUR solved it. I wonder if it's possible to find out what happened, so I can avoid this from happening again?
See wonder's post. What is required is:
/etc/rc.d/vboxdrv setup All men have stood for freedom...
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#8 2010-09-03 20:37:31
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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox VM Hard Locks Entire Machine
It looks like rebuilding virtualbox_bin from AUR solved it. I wonder if it's possible to find out what happened, so I can avoid this from happening again?
it happens now because the kernel config was changed. usually is unnoticed as we do that on major update and you rebuild it.
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#9 2010-09-03 20:56:11
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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox VM Hard Locks Entire Machine
jlacroix wrote:It looks like rebuilding virtualbox_bin from AUR solved it. I wonder if it's possible to find out what happened, so I can avoid this from happening again?
See wonder's post. What is required is:
/etc/rc.d/vboxdrv setup
I did do that before posting this thread, and it did not fix it.
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#10 2010-09-03 21:23:15
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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox VM Hard Locks Entire Machine
All I did was rebuild vbox reboot and all is well.
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