Vbox 2.0.0 upgrade on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 blowing up

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun Sep 14 02:40:36 UTC 2008


On 09/11/2008 09:19 AM, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:

> 
> 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.

You might want to give the new 2.0.2 a spin that was released yesterday:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
  http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

Backup, use a test machine first & all the usual precautions...

Gary





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