Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 03/03/2013 02:25:51 PM, walt wrote:
> On 03/02/2013 10:55 AM, walt wrote:
> > On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
> >>> After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two
> different
> >>> Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host).
> >>>
> >>> Luckily, only the most recent snapshot crashed and I was able to
> >>> boot normally with the second most recent snapshot (both guests).
> >>>
> >>> I didn't lose anything important because the only thing I use
> >>> Windows for is to run Windows Update :) (know thine enemy, etc)
> >>>
> >>> Maybe if you have important stuff on a Win7 guest you should make
> >>> an extra snapshot just before you update to vbox-4.2.8 in case you
> >>> need to delete the last one.
> >>>
> >>> BTW, I had no problems with linux guests so far.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> What did the crashes say?
> >
> > The usual :)  "Windows has encountered a problem and must close..."
> >
> > Just now I updated a second gentoo machine that (I thought) is the
> > same as this one, but I didn't the crashes on that machine, so I
> don't
> > know what to think now.  I hope nobody else has the same problem.
>
> Crap, I just noticed that virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 won't compile
> against
> the latest 3.8.x kernels :

virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 builds just fine with gentoo-sources-3.8.1 here
Helmut.


(  That means I've been using the 4.2.6 kernel
> odules while running vbox-4.2.8.  That might explain the crashes but I
> can't say for certain.  At least it's an excuse :)
>