Vbox 2.0.0 upgrade on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 blowing up

[Steven Davies-Morris]

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 wound up downgrading from 2.0.0 to 1.6.6 and the issues I had went
away. I removed a tag and a block of code from the XML file that
controlled my WinXP virtual machine. Here's a link to the instructions
for doing that:

<http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=9082&sid=a6e6c4d7be28f188ddcc3307d1d2f77f>

So for now, if you have an app that really pushes the video driver,
you might want to stick with 1.6.6 stable release instead of upgrading
to the 2.0.0 release.
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