kneewax
July 14th, 2009, 11:10 AM
I have been having real problems with VirtualBox 2.2.4 for weeks now.
I use Vbox for a single XP Pro machine and have been using it for 18-months without major issue.
However the past month or so has been nightmare.
It started with a 'Delayed Write Error' in the Guest OS, this I tried to work around, initially by updating Vbox to the latest release - then when that didn't help, I found an article in this forum about shared drives on the host machine, so I disconnected all my shares. This has not helped.
Twice now I have the guest OS crash only to discover on restart that Vbox has reverted to an old snapshot and lost all my changes.
I started to wonder if it was just a problem with this particular Guest, so I tried to build a second XP machine that I could migrate too. This has consistently failed during XP installation.
As a result I began to wonder if the issue was related to a bad sector where Vbox I was saving the Machine, but I have attempted telling Vbox to save on a different HDD / Partition and get the same issue - crashed installations.
Please can anyone help me diagnose what is killing my Virtual Machines. It is costing me wqay too much time to do those simple tasks that I need Windoze for (two pieces of software that won't run with Wine, but that I need for work).
I use Vbox for a single XP Pro machine and have been using it for 18-months without major issue.
However the past month or so has been nightmare.
It started with a 'Delayed Write Error' in the Guest OS, this I tried to work around, initially by updating Vbox to the latest release - then when that didn't help, I found an article in this forum about shared drives on the host machine, so I disconnected all my shares. This has not helped.
Twice now I have the guest OS crash only to discover on restart that Vbox has reverted to an old snapshot and lost all my changes.
I started to wonder if it was just a problem with this particular Guest, so I tried to build a second XP machine that I could migrate too. This has consistently failed during XP installation.
As a result I began to wonder if the issue was related to a bad sector where Vbox I was saving the Machine, but I have attempted telling Vbox to save on a different HDD / Partition and get the same issue - crashed installations.
Please can anyone help me diagnose what is killing my Virtual Machines. It is costing me wqay too much time to do those simple tasks that I need Windoze for (two pieces of software that won't run with Wine, but that I need for work).