Vbox 2.0.0 upgrade on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 blowing up

[Steven Davies-Morris]

NoOp wrote:
> On 09/09/2008 07:11 PM, 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've had no problems w/VB2.0x - 4 machines w/Win2KPro guests]
> 
> [Followup set to ubuntu.user as you're crossposting :-) ]

My virtual is XP.  I'll try reinstalling the Newsbin app and see if 
things go back to working normally.
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