Vbox 2.0.0 upgrade on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 blowing up

[feralert]

Dont know if you are aware of it, but sun has released a new maintenance
release 2.02, maybe you should try that.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Steven Davies-Morris <
sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:

> 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!
>
> Following up.
>
> I tried to deinstall 2.0.0 then install 1.6.6.  Here's the error
> report I get when I tell Hardy to install 1.6.6:
>
> Could not load the settings file
> '/home/sdavmor/.VirtualBox/Machines/Win2KOEM/Win2KOEM.xml'.
> Element
> '{http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings}HardwareVirtExNestedPaging<http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings%7DHardwareVirtExNestedPaging>
> ':
> This element is not expected. Expected is (
> {http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings}PAE<http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings%7DPAE>).
> Element '{http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings}GuestProperties<http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings%7DGuestProperties>
> ':
> This element is not expected.
>
> Result Code:
> 0x80004005
> Component:
> VirtualBox
> Interface:
> IVirtualBox {2d3b9ea7-25f5-4f07-a8e1-7dd7e0dcf667}
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