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    Ubuntu crashes on running VirtualBox

    Hi all,

    I am on Ubuntu 12.04. I just started using virtualbox at work (on win7) and now I wish to run virtualbox on my home PC (running Ubuntu). However, my computer crashes every time when I start running a guest OS using VirtualBox. Anyone knows how to fix it? Please indicate what information I need to provide in order to get this problem fixed since I'm pretty much a n00b...

    EDIT: The version of my VirtualBox on Ubuntu is 4.1.12_Ubuntur77245

    Many thanks!
    Last edited by kwanylongy; September 21st, 2012 at 04:10 PM.

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    Re: Ubuntu crashes on running VirtualBox

    I'm going to start with this for you to try:

    1. open a terminal window
    2. type "sudo gedit /etc/default/grub" (without the quotes) and press enter
    3. Comment out the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" by adding a "#" character in front.
    4. Add new line below: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nmi_watchdog=0 nowatchdog"
    5. Save and exit
    6. type "sudo update-grub" (without the quotes) and press enter
    7. reboot.

    The potential workarounds can be found here.

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    Re: Ubuntu crashes on running VirtualBox

    How did you install it? What installation document did you follow? And what are your computer specifications?

    https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#idp14255536

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    Re: Ubuntu crashes on running VirtualBox

    Quote Originally Posted by daslinkard View Post
    I'm going to start with this for you to try:

    1. open a terminal window
    2. type "sudo gedit /etc/default/grub" (without the quotes) and press enter
    3. Comment out the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" by adding a "#" character in front.
    4. Add new line below: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nmi_watchdog=0 nowatchdog"
    5. Save and exit
    6. type "sudo update-grub" (without the quotes) and press enter
    7. reboot.

    The potential workarounds can be found here.
    Daslinkard,

    Thank you so much for your help and sorry for my late reply. I forgot to subscribe to this thread and so thought nobody had replied

    I tried the steps you suggested, but with no luck. I'll read the workaround your posted and post the results here later.
    Last edited by kwanylongy; October 1st, 2012 at 05:09 PM.

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    Re: Ubuntu crashes on running VirtualBox

    How much RAM do you have, and how much RAM have you given the guest OS? VirtualBox requires a lot of RAM, and your computer may crash if the RAM runs out.

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    Re: Ubuntu crashes on running VirtualBox

    Quote Originally Posted by Stonecold1995 View Post
    How much RAM do you have, and how much RAM have you given the guest OS? VirtualBox requires a lot of RAM, and your computer may crash if the RAM runs out.
    4GB, and I have only assigned 1GB to my VirtualBox GuestOS, so I don't think that is the problem.

    Thanks!

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    Re: Ubuntu crashes on running VirtualBox

    Thread moved to Virtualisation.

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