VirtualBox is being mean again!

[Cadeyrn]

Ugh, I got VirtualBox to launch properly, but once I get to Windows XP Installation formatting its own partition of my virtual hard drive, it simply closes. No error message. But my computer still continues to lag like HELL as if it were still installing, and when I relaunch VirtualBox it says that virtual machine was aborted. Here's the log of the entire "aborted" session:


00:15:47.514 Guest CPUM state: se
00:15:47.514 eax=0000f001 ebx=0000d69d ecx=00160001 edx=00000000 esi=0000000c edi=0000ffd8
00:15:47.514 eip=00000a6e esp=0000ffb6 ebp=0000ffca iopl=0 nv up di pl zr na pe nc
00:15:47.514 cs={f000 base=00000000000f0000 limit=0000ffff flags=00000000} dr0=00000000 dr1=00000000
00:15:47.514 ds={0000 base=0000000000000000 limit=0000ffff flags=00000000} dr2=00000000 dr3=00000000
00:15:47.514 es={07c0 base=0000000000007c00 limit=0000ffff flags=00000000} dr4=00000000 dr5=00000000
00:15:47.514 fs={0000 base=0000000000000000 limit=0000ffff flags=00000000} dr6=ffff0ff0 dr7=00000400
00:15:47.514 gs={0000 base=0000000000000000 limit=0000ffff flags=00000000} cr0=60000010 cr2=00000000
00:15:47.514 ss={0000 base=0000000000000000 limit=0000ffff flags=00000000} cr3=00000000 cr4=00000000
00:15:47.514 gdtr=0000000000000000:ffff idtr=0000000000000000:ffff eflags=00000002
00:15:47.514 ldtr={0000 base=00000000 limit=0000ffff flags=00000080}
00:15:47.514 tr ={0000 base=00000000 limit=0000ffff flags=00000080}
00:15:47.514 SysEnter={cs=0000 eip=00000000 esp=00000000}
00:15:47.514 FPU:
00:15:47.514 FCW=037f FSW=0000 FTW=00
00:15:47.514 res1=00 FOP=0000 FPUIP=00000000 CS=0000 Rsvrd1=0000
00:15:47.514 FPUDP=0000 DS=0000 Rsvrd2=0000 MXCSR=00000000 MXCSR_MASK=00000000
00:15:47.514 MSR:
00:15:47.514 EFER =0000000000000000
00:15:47.514 PAT =0007040600070406
00:15:47.514 STAR =0000000000000000
00:15:47.514 CSTAR =0000000000000000
00:15:47.514 LSTAR =0000000000000000
00:15:47.514 SFMASK =0000000000000000
00:15:47.514 KERNELGSBASE =0000000000000000
00:15:47.514 ***
00:15:47.514 Guest paging mode: Real, changed 0 times, A20 enabled
00:15:47.514 Shadow paging mode: 32-bit
00:15:47.514 Host paging mode: 32-bit+G
00:15:47.514 ***
00:15:47.514 Active Timers (pVM=b42e4000)
00:15:47.514 pTimerR3 offNext offPrev offSched Clock Time Expire State Description
00:15:47.515 b403a500 00037df0 00000000 00000000 Real 000000000020372108 000000000020368117 ACTIVE VGA Refresh Timer
00:15:47.515 b40722f0 00000000 fffc8210 00000000 Real 000000000020372108 000000000020368139 ACTIVE EMT Yielder
00:15:47.515 b402b090 00043570 00000000 00000000 Virt 000000044000426281 000000043998721898 ACTIVE PDM Poller
00:15:47.515 b406e600 00000000 fffbca90 00000000 Virt 000000044000426281 000000044005755325 ACTIVE Audio timer
00:15:47.515 b402cd70 00000360 00000000 00000000 VrSy 000000043990379379 000000044045304780 ACTIVE i8254 Programmable Interval Timer
00:15:47.515 b402d0d0 000445b0 fffffca0 00000000 VrSy 000000043990379379 000000044990000000 ACTIVE MC146818 RTC/CMOS - Second
00:15:47.515 b4071680 00000000 fffbba50 00000000 VrSy 000000043990379379 000001228417501410 ACTIVE ACPI Timer
00:15:47.515 ***
00:15:47.515 Shadow GDT (GCAddr=a099f000):
00:15:47.515 ffd8 - 0de80087 a0008901 - base=a0010de8 limit=00000087 dpl=0 TSS32Avail Present 16-bit HyperTSSTrap08
00:15:47.515 ffe0 - 0d600087 a0008b01 - base=a0010d60 limit=00000087 dpl=0 TSS32Busy Present 16-bit HyperTSS
00:15:47.515 ffe8 - 0000ffff 00af9b00 - base=00000000 limit=ffffffff dpl=0 CodeER Accessed Present Page 16-bit HyperCS64
00:15:47.515 fff0 - 0000ffff 00cf9300 - base=00000000 limit=ffffffff dpl=0 DataRW Accessed Present Page 32-bit HyperDS
00:15:47.515 fff8 - 0000ffff 00cf9b00 - base=00000000 limit=ffffffff dpl=0 CodeER Accessed Present Page 32-bit HyperCS
00:15:47.515 ***
00:15:47.515 ***
00:15:47.515 ss:sp=0000:ffb6 0000:ff80 TO 0000:1007f:
00:15:47.515 b43fe258 0000: 00 00 00 00 02 00 a8 ff-0c 01 d8 ff 0c 00 a8 ff ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe268 0010: 9a ff 00 00 00 00 01 00-0a 0e 00 00 c0 07 46 00 ..............F.
00:15:47.515 b43fe278 0020: e5 05 00 f0 46 02 9c d6-ae ff 00 00 9d d6 ca ff ....F...........
00:15:47.515 b43fe288 0030: 57 0a 00 f0 9d d6 00 00-c0 ff 00 00 00 00 d0 ff W...............
00:15:47.515 b43fe298 0040: 00 00 d0 ff 00 00 00 00-76 00 d4 ff b7 17 07 00 ........v.......
00:15:47.515 b43fe2a8 0050: 9d d6 00 00 f0 ff dc a1-00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2b8 0060: 01 00 00 01 00 00 c0 07-00 00 00 80 02 00 c0 9f ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2c8 0070: f6 ff 19 a9 03 00 f8 ff-c2 e2 00 f0 82 02 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2d8 0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2e8 0090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2f8 00a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe308 00b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe318 00c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe328 00d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe338 00e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe348 00f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 2000:0000 TO 2000:01ff:
00:15:47.515 b43fe258 0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe268 0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe278 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe288 0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe298 0040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2a8 0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2b8 0060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2c8 0070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2d8 0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2e8 0090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe2f8 00a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe308 00b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe318 00c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe328 00d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe338 00e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe348 00f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe358 0100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe368 0110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe378 0120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe388 0130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe398 0140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe3a8 0150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe3b8 0160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe3c8 0170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe3d8 0180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe3e8 0190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe3f8 01a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe408 01b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe418 01c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe428 01d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe438 01e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 b43fe448 01f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00:15:47.515 ************** End of Guest state at power off ***************
00:15:47.515 Changing the VM state from 'SUSPENDED' to 'OFF'.
00:15:47.517 Changing the VM state from 'OFF' to 'DESTROYING'.
00:15:47.517 ************************* Statistics *************************
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit0/AtapiDMA 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit0/AtapiPIO 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit0/DMA 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit0/PIO 4 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit0/ReadBytes 1024 bytes
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit0/WrittenBytes 0 bytes
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit1/AtapiDMA 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit1/AtapiPIO 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit1/DMA 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit1/PIO 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit1/ReadBytes 0 bytes
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA0/Unit1/WrittenBytes 0 bytes
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit0/AtapiDMA 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit0/AtapiPIO 10 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit0/DMA 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit0/PIO 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit0/ReadBytes 20480 bytes
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit0/WrittenBytes 0 bytes
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit1/AtapiDMA 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit1/AtapiPIO 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit1/DMA 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit1/PIO 0 times
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit1/ReadBytes 0 bytes
00:15:47.517 /Devices/ATA1/Unit1/WrittenBytes 0 bytes
00:15:47.517 /Devices/PCNet0/ReceiveBytes 0 bytes
00:15:47.517 /Devices/PCNet0/TransmitBytes 0 bytes
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/HaltBlocking 21388 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/HaltCalls 62152 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/HaltNotBlocking 40764 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/HaltTimeouts 10816 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/HaltWakeUps 0 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/PollCalls 0 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/PollHalts 0 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/PollWakeUps 0 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/WakeUpCalls 13565 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/WakeUpNotHalted 11430 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/Sum/WakeUpWakeUps 0 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/VM/HaltBlocking 21388 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/VM/HaltCalls 62152 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/VM/HaltNotBlocking 40764 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/VM/HaltTimeouts 10816 calls
00:15:47.517 /GVMM/VM/HaltWakeUps 0 calls
00:15:47.518 /GVMM/VM/PollCalls 0 calls
00:15:47.518 /GVMM/VM/PollHalts 0 calls
00:15:47.518 /GVMM/VM/PollWakeUps 0 calls
00:15:47.518 /GVMM/VM/WakeUpCalls 13565 calls
00:15:47.518 /GVMM/VM/WakeUpNotHalted 11430 calls
00:15:47.518 /GVMM/VM/WakeUpWakeUps 0 calls
00:15:47.518 /GVMM/VMs 1 calls
00:15:47.518 /MM/HyperHeap/cbFree 914688 bytes
00:15:47.518 /MM/HyperHeap/cbHeap 1310656 bytes
00:15:47.518 /PDM/VUSB0/cUrbsInPool 0 count
00:15:47.518 /PDM/VUSB1/cUrbsInPool 0 count
00:15:47.518 /PGM/cGuestModeChanges 0 times
00:15:47.518 /PROF/EM/Halted 140088315 ticks/call ( 79570162947 ticks, 568 times, max 2273291581, min 1331)
00:15:47.518 /PROF/EM/Total 80665885124 ticks/call ( 80665885124 ticks, 1 times, max 80665885124, min 80665885124)
00:15:47.518 /PROF/VM/Halt/Block 1260453 ticks/call ( 78328374762 ticks, 62143 times, max 24633015, min 2321)
00:15:47.518 /PROF/VM/Halt/Poll 9573 ticks/call ( 687748919 ticks, 71838 times, max 201685, min 4114)
00:15:47.518 /PROF/VM/Halt/Timers 5376 ticks/call ( 386205754 ticks, 71838 times, max 15319733, min 1419)
00:15:47.518 /PROF/VM/Halt/Yield 0 ticks/call ( 0 ticks, 0 times, max 0, min -1)
00:15:47.518 /TM/R3/1nsSteps 31666 times
00:15:47.518 /TM/VirtualSync/CurrentOffset 506377 ns
00:15:47.518 ********************* End of statistics **********************
00:15:47.530 Changing the VM state from 'DESTROYING' to 'TERMINATED'.

[Titan8990]

Does your hardware support virtualization?

[Cadeyrn]

That depends. Does the August 2006 edition of the iMac, 2nd worst model, Intel, have hardware that supports it?

I do have a decent processor and video card and hard drive and everything. I don't see why it shouldn't support it.

[Cadeyrn]

That depends. Does the August 2006 edition of the iMac, 2nd worst model, Intel, have hardware that supports it?

I do have a decent processor and video card and hard drive and everything. I don't see why it shouldn't support it.

EDIT: Aw crap, double-post.

[Cadeyrn]

BUMP.

I need this fixed!!!

[Shazaam]

Go here and download/burn the live cd iso...
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
1. Set your VBox vm to boot from the cd first and pop the gparted cd in.
2. Make sure the cdrom is mounted (vm Settings).
3. Start the vm.
4. Use the GParted livecd to make the vm partion(s) you need, formatted to ntfs.
5. Reboot the vm.
6. Try to install Windows again.

[Cadeyrn]

Alright, thanks. I'm sure this'll work but I can't try it yet because 50 MB will take pretty long on my internet.

I'll try it tomorrow.

[Cadeyrn]

Alright, thanks. I'm sure this'll work but I can't try it yet because 50 MB will take pretty long on my internet.

I'll try it tomorrow.

[Shazaam]

In a pinch you could use the Ubuntu livecd version of gparted. I like the stand-alone version because it has a basic linux os and gparted only so you don't have other unneeded stuff loading up at boot.

[Cadeyrn]

So, how does this thing work? Is it just an iso that GParted turns into a shortcut for whatever disc is in the physical drive?

[Cadeyrn]

Alright, I managed to figure it out for myself and chose the auto-livecd thing. It did its stuff and asked me about my keyboard and language and stuff, and when it was eventually finished loading GParted it turned into this:

Edit bodhi.zazen : Please do not post such large images on the forums, use thumb nails , LOL

Truthfully, the VM became resized to be bigger than my computer screen, but I wanted to resize it before I took the picture for no apparent reason. XD

[Shazaam]

Try to boot it again but this time, when the first screen comes up, choose "force vesa" instead of the default first line and that should take care of the graphics glitch.

[Cadeyrn]

Umm... This time it did this:

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/6309/vboxbug2nq9.png

By the way, ignore the messed-up toolbars--that's because I have a full screen game in the other workspace.

[Shazaam]

Hmmm. You may have to close everything but VirtualBox. How much memory do you have and how much do you have allocated to the Windows vm?

[Cadeyrn]

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD I'm such an idiot.

Looking back at the settings I just realized I set the RAM to 2.5 GHz, thinking it was the partition size! I set it to 512 MB and tried running it without any other programs, and... I got the same result as the last screenshot. :\

[Cadeyrn]

And then I remembered my computer only has 512, so I set it to 224 MB. But still the same result.

[Cadeyrn]

Bump!