VirtualBox is garbage
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VirtualBox is garbage
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#2I can't remember the last time I saw a stock Ubuntu guest crash a VM process, but VirtualBox crashed 4 times in the last 2 days.
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#3I can't remember the last time I saw a stock Ubuntu guest crash a VM process, but VirtualBox crashed 4 times in the last 2 days.
I think I managed to crash it about ten times last sunday, doing nothing but browsing the web on a VM.
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#4Yeah, VirtualBox crashes for me all the time. Does it have automatic error reporting to Oracle on why it is unstable? I would hope that these crashes are fixable.
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#5Aw, I think we killed the site :(
Has someone got a copy of the text?
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#6I can't remember the last time I saw a stock Ubuntu guest crash a VM process, but VirtualBox crashed 4 times in the last 2 days.
I think I managed to crash it about ten times last sunday, doing nothing but browsing the web on a VM.
I had a lot of instability until I upgraded to a newer vm kernel.
I was on 2.6.38 fedora 64bit vm and it would crash once a day
now I am on 2.6.40 and it has been stable for 50 days
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#7The link in the parent is https, try this regular http link if you can't read the article:
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#8Has anyone managed to get Windows 8 running in VirtualBox on OS X? I've tried, keep getting errors.
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#9Although I am a heavy VirtualBox-user (vagrant is just too good), I can relate to this.
The only reason why my machine ever panicks is exactly the one cited in this mail: vboxdrv.
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#10A slightly less caustic way of saying it would be to say that bug reports from things running on virtual box are garbage.