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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:55:34
Message-Id: 51324B16.6010701@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests by Nilesh Govindrajan
1 On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
2 > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two different
4 >> Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host).
5 >>
6 >> Luckily, only the most recent snapshot crashed and I was able to
7 >> boot normally with the second most recent snapshot (both guests).
8 >>
9 >> I didn't lose anything important because the only thing I use
10 >> Windows for is to run Windows Update :) (know thine enemy, etc)
11 >>
12 >> Maybe if you have important stuff on a Win7 guest you should make
13 >> an extra snapshot just before you update to vbox-4.2.8 in case you
14 >> need to delete the last one.
15 >>
16 >> BTW, I had no problems with linux guests so far.
17 >>
18 >>
19 >
20 > What did the crashes say?
21
22 The usual :) "Windows has encountered a problem and must close..."
23
24 Just now I updated a second gentoo machine that (I thought) is the
25 same as this one, but I didn't the crashes on that machine, so I don't
26 know what to think now. I hope nobody else has the same problem.

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