Odd behavior with virtualbox-ose-4.3.38

[Jan Mikkelsen]

Do you have aio loaded or compiled into your kernel? If so, does it keep happening without aio?


> On 22 Aug 2016, at 14:15, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Since upgrading to vb-4.3.38, I am see odd behavior with the GUI. When I
>> restart my suspended Windows7 system, I get a window (child of the manager
>> GUI) saying that the session is being started, but showing zero percent.
>> The virtual system is restarted just fine, regardless and all is well. When
>> I suspend the system, I get the following error:
>> Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Win7.
>> 
>> The virtual machine 'Win7' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with
>> exit code 0 (0x0).
>> 
>> Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
>> Component: Machine
>> Interface: IMachine {480cf695-2d8d-4256-9c7c-cce4184fa048}
>> 
>> Again, there is no problem seen except for the mysterious window showing
>> the session starting and just sitting at 0% and the error that pops up when
>> I suspend the VM.
>> 
>> Any idea what is going on and whether there is any reason to be concerned?
>> --
>> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
>> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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>> 
> 
> After added testing. the problem appears to be with disk access. Aside from
> the BSDs, I am also seeing the system lock up with the disk access "led" on
> solid with the host system showing no activity at all. It has frozen in
> both green (read) and red (write). It seems most likely to happen when the
> host system is very active, e.g. building a large port. When the disk
> access is frozen, the system is still alive until it needs to access the
> disk.It appears that I was in thinking that it was related to pausing the
> system, though that seems to be most likely to cause the BSD  of the
> Windows 7 system. It is possible that there are actually two issues, but I
> suspect it is all the same problem with different manifestations.
> --
> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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