VM aborts after when unpausing

[SamH]

Whenever I pause virtual machine (guest), put host to suspend mode, wake up host from suspend mode and un-pause guest guest machine aborts.

Please find below more details:

• Virtualbox version: 4.3.28 r1003109
• host OS: Ubuntu 15.04 64 bit , 16 GB RAM
• hardware: ASUS g501JW with PCIE x 4 512G disk, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960M (custom driver NVIDIA installed on host), 16GB RAM
• guest OS: Ubuntu 14.04.02 LTS 64 bit, 11,1 GB RAM available

Configured memory balloon size:      0 MB


myusername@myusername-G501JW:~$ VBoxManage showvminfo myusername_dev --details
Name:            myusername_dev
Groups:          /
Guest OS:        Ubuntu (64 bit)
UUID:            746b8bbf-436c-4694-a4a0-7f1a8c3dad66
Config file:     /home/myusername/VirtualBox VMs/myusername_dev/myusername_dev.vbox
Snapshot folder: /home/myusername/VirtualBox VMs/myusername_dev/Snapshots
Log folder:      /home/myusername/VirtualBox VMs/myusername_dev/Logs
Hardware UUID:   746b8bbf-436c-4694-a4a0-7f1a8c3dad66
Memory size:     11100MB
Page Fusion:     off
VRAM size:       128MB
CPU exec cap:    100%
HPET:            off
Chipset:         ich9
Firmware:        BIOS
Number of CPUs:  4
PAE:             on
Long Mode:       on
Synthetic CPU:   off
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode:  message and menu
Boot Device (1): Floppy
Boot Device (2): DVD
Boot Device (3): HardDisk
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI:            on
IOAPIC:          on
Time offset:     0ms
RTC:             UTC
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Nested Paging:   on
Large Pages:     off
VT-x VPID:       on
VT-x unr. exec.: on
State:           aborted (since 2015-05-19T05:02:53.056000000)
Monitor count:   1
3D Acceleration: on
2D Video Acceleration: off
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 0
Teleporter Address: 
Teleporter Password: 
Tracing Enabled: off
Allow Tracing to Access VM: off
Tracing Configuration: 
Autostart Enabled: off
Autostart Delay: 0
Default Frontend: 
Storage Controller Name (0):            IDE Controller
Storage Controller Type (0):            PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0):  2
Storage Controller Port Count (0):      2
Storage Controller Bootable (0):        on
Storage Controller Name (1):            SATA Controller
Storage Controller Type (1):            IntelAhci
Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (1):  30
Storage Controller Port Count (1):      1
Storage Controller Bootable (1):        on
IDE Controller (1, 0): Empty
SATA Controller (0, 0): /home/myusername/VirtualBox VMs/myusername_dev/myusername_dev.vdi (UUID: adfbc6b1-0918-466e-afdc-a22c859dfb5f)
NIC 1:           MAC: 0800278D29C7, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: deny, Bandwidth group: none
NIC 1 Settings:  MTU: 0, Socket (send: 64, receive: 64), TCP Window (send:64, receive: 64)
NIC 2:           disabled
NIC 3:           disabled
NIC 4:           disabled
NIC 5:           disabled
NIC 6:           disabled
NIC 7:           disabled
NIC 8:           disabled
NIC 9:           disabled
NIC 10:           disabled
NIC 11:           disabled
NIC 12:           disabled
NIC 13:           disabled
NIC 14:           disabled
NIC 15:           disabled
NIC 16:           disabled
NIC 17:           disabled
NIC 18:           disabled
NIC 19:           disabled
NIC 20:           disabled
NIC 21:           disabled
NIC 22:           disabled
NIC 23:           disabled
NIC 24:           disabled
NIC 25:           disabled
NIC 26:           disabled
NIC 27:           disabled
NIC 28:           disabled
NIC 29:           disabled
NIC 30:           disabled
NIC 31:           disabled
NIC 32:           disabled
NIC 33:           disabled
NIC 34:           disabled
NIC 35:           disabled
NIC 36:           disabled
Pointing Device: USB Tablet
Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
UART 1:          disabled
UART 2:          disabled
LPT 1:           disabled
LPT 2:           disabled
Audio:           enabled (Driver: PulseAudio, Controller: AC97)
Clipboard Mode:  Bidirectional
Drag'n'drop Mode: Bidirectional
VRDE:            disabled
USB:             enabled
EHCI:            enabled

USB Device Filters:

Index:            0
Active:           yes
Name:             Patriot Memory [0100]
VendorId:         13fe
ProductId:        3800
Revision:         0100
Manufacturer:             
Product:          Patriot Memory
Remote:           0
Serial Number:    07B311011963B081

Index:            1
Active:           yes
Name:             USB Flash Drive [0100]
VendorId:         1e3d
ProductId:        2093
Revision:         0100
Manufacturer:             
Product:          USB Flash Drive 
Remote:           0
Serial Number:    25124300572F7508

Index:            2
Active:           yes
Name:             Western Digital My Passport 0740 [1003]
VendorId:         1058
ProductId:        0740
Revision:         1003
Manufacturer:     Western Digital
Product:          My Passport 0740
Remote:           0
Serial Number:    57584D314137313030343931

Index:            3
Active:           yes
Name:             Western Digital Elements 10B8 [1007]
VendorId:         1058
ProductId:        10b8
Revision:         1007
Manufacturer:     Western Digital
Product:          Elements 10B8
Remote:           0
Serial Number:    575848314533335753584635

Index:            4
Active:           yes
Name:             HTC Android Phone [0228]
VendorId:         0bb4
ProductId:        0f25
Revision:         0228
Manufacturer:     HTC
Product:          Android Phone
Remote:           0
Serial Number:    FA35DW906104

Index:            5
Active:           yes
Name:             Apple Inc. iPad [0220]
VendorId:         05ac
ProductId:        12a2
Revision:         0220
Manufacturer:     Apple Inc.
Product:          iPad
Remote:           0
Serial Number:    f55bd4d7ffafd8b28bf317e8333129b751abbdf7

Index:            6
Active:           yes
Name:             New Filter 1
VendorId:         
ProductId:        
Revision:         
Manufacturer:     
Product:          
Remote:           
Serial Number:    

Available remote USB devices:

<none>

Currently Attached USB Devices:

<none>

Bandwidth groups:  <none>

Shared folders:  

Name: 'tmp', Host path: '/home/myusername/tmp' (machine mapping), writable

VRDE Connection:    not active
Clients so far:     0

Video capturing:    not active
Capture screens:    0
Capture file:       /home/myusername/VirtualBox VMs/myusername_dev/myusername_dev.webm
Capture dimensions: 1024x768
Capture rate:       512 kbps
Capture FPS:        25

Guest:

Configured memory balloon size:      0 MB

[SamH]

I tried to attach CoreDump but after half an hour of browser telling me connecting I gave up. CoreDump file is 429.1 MB in size.

[Frank Mehnert]

Could you upload the core dump to some shared drive and provide me the URL by email (frank _dot_ mehnert _at_ oracle _dot_ com)?

[SamH]

Link to core dump in your mailbox...

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks, I've got the core dump. I think the crash happens in libnvidia-tls.so.346.59 so I guess the crash will not happen if you disable 3D acceleration for this VM, is that true? Also, do you know if the same happened with older versions of VirtualBox, that is, is that a 4.3.28 regression or didn't you try an older version? Thank you!

[SamH]

Replying to frank:

Thanks, I've got the core dump. I think the crash happens in libnvidia-tls.so.346.59 so I guess the crash will not happen if you disable 3D acceleration for this VM, is that true? Also, do you know if the same happened with older versions of VirtualBox, that is, is that a 4.3.28 regression or didn't you try an older version? Thank you!

I tried three times with disabled 3d acceleration and indeed the VM did not crash. But, without 3d acceleration guest system is totally unusable since it flickers so heavily... Please see this forum posts for details: ​https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=67823 .

I think that this is not 4.3.28 related. This issue existed before 4.3.28, for sure in 4.3.26.

What am I supposed to do here?