OS X 10.6 Host & Guest: Upgrade from 4.1.8 to 4.2.1 results in Guest Boot Crash

[wyrdR]

Upgrade VirtualBox from 4.1.8 to 4.2.0 causing crash of VM on boot; i.e. Fails to boot, Kernel Panic.

Both Host & Guest are Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server.

Downgrading back to 4.1.8 fixes problem - i.e. VMs not damaged irretrievably.

Tried:

• Straight upgrade: ERRORs
• Exporting VM from 4.1.8 then removing the re-importing into 4.2.0 - ERRORs
• Remove VM; Re-add new VM with old vdi (fresh, default settings): ERRORs

[wyrdR]

Log while 4.2.0 is installed & booting from re-imported VM

[Frank Mehnert]

Could be an EFI problem. Could you also try VBox 4.1.22?

[vasily Levchenko]

Could you please attach the log of such boot fails?

[wyrdR]

Replying to Hachiman:

Could you please attach the log of such boot fails?

I've attached VBox.log already. What other logs should I be looking for?

[wyrdR]

Replying to frank:

Could be an EFI problem. Could you also try VBox 4.1.22?

Upgrade to VBox 4.1.23 went OK.

[Frank Mehnert]

Ok, if I understood you correctly then this is a 4.2.0 regression as 4.1.23 works for you, right?

[vasily Levchenko]

Replying to frank:

Ok, if I understood you correctly then this is a 4.2.0 regression as 4.1.23 works for you, right?

I've ment panics on the guest side? As soon they happen too early, you can only do screenshot of such cases.

[wyrdR]

Replying to frank:

Ok, if I understood you correctly then this is a 4.2.0 regression as 4.1.23 works for you, right?

Correct; And just to clarify, working with 4.1.23 & 4.2.1 here; Both are apparently Mac OS X specific patches for 4.1.22 & 4.2.0 respectively.

/wonders: Am I the only one still using Snow Leopard as a host?

[vasily Levchenko]

Replying to wyrdR:

Replying to frank:

Ok, if I understood you correctly then this is a 4.2.0 regression as 4.1.23 works for you, right?

Correct; And just to clarify, working with 4.1.23 & 4.2.1 here; Both are apparently Mac OS X specific patches for 4.1.22 & 4.2.0 respectively.

Not only Mac host support, 4.2.1 contains UEFI related fixes also.

[alanbirtles]

panic screenshot

[alanbirtles]

I am also seeing the same issue since upgrading to 4.2, screenshot attached taken with 4.2.4

[VenCain]

Exact same for me; happens when running a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit host with a Snow Leopard Server Guest (MacBookPro8,3 + legit OS X server license) using VB 4.2.4.

Backing off to 4.1.22 allows me to run the guest.

-VenCain

[JessePeterson]

Note other possible duplicate tickets #11401, #11288, #11052.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please reopen if still relevant with VBox 4.3.2.

[wyrdR]

Tried updating to 3.3.2 - New problem (below).

Trying to revert but not so easy. May have to completely wipe Virtual Box and guest and start again... :(

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Failed to open a session for the virtual machine xadmin. Virtual 3.3.2

pgm#1: ROM at 00000000000ff000 by the name 'EFI Thunk (2)' was not found [ver=14 pass=final] (VERR_SSM_LOAD_CONFIG_MISMATCH). Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: Console Interface: IConsole {8ab7c520-2442-4b66-8d74-4ff1e195d2b6}

[Frank Mehnert]

Please open a separate ticket for the new issue. Please also attach the complete VBox.log file to the new ticket.