CentOS 5.3 DVD Boot Hangs with VirtualBox 3.0.4

[Bill Chatfield]

It seem to be related to the display auto resize, but different from other bugs already entered. Log is attached.

[trantor_rws]

I have the EXACT same problem (host is WinXP SP3).

System hang during kernel boot:

NET: Registred protocol family 2

Last lines of log

00:00:00.925 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
00:00:00.926 Guest Log: BIOS: ata0-0: PCHS=4161/16/63 LCHS=520/128/63
00:00:00.926 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#1: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0x00 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
00:00:00.926 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#1: finished processing RESET
00:00:00.926 PIT: mode=2 count=0x48d3 (18643) - 64.00 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:00.929 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=07bd0000 w=640 h=480 bpp=32 cbLine=0xA00
00:00:03.400 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=00000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0
00:00:03.400 PIT: mode=2 count=0x10000 (65536) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:03.401 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Floppy 0 failed
00:00:03.401 Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from CD-ROM...
00:00:03.422 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=07bd0000 w=640 h=480 bpp=0 cbLine=0x140
00:00:20.639 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped device for ELDL=81
00:00:20.639 Guest Log: BIOS: KBD: unsupported int 16h function 03
00:00:20.640 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped device for ELDL=81
00:00:20.640 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 02, unmapped device for ELDL=81
00:00:20.640 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 41, unmapped device for ELDL=81
00:00:20.642 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=00000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0
00:00:20.786 PIT: mode=2 count=0x4a9 (1193) - 1000.15 Hz (ch=0)

[trantor_rws]

I forgot to precise, tested on VirtualBox 3.0.6

[Technologov]

I have RHEL 5.3 (both 32-bit and 64-bit) guests working fine.

Host: Windows 7 64-bit, Intel Core 2 Q6600, VBox 3.0.10. (VT-x enabled)

The difference is that you disable VT. (running with software virtualization)

The only issue I have is guest additions -- some features such as dynamic resizing and seamless mode do not work. But this is normal for old guests.

-Technologov

[Technologov]

This looks similar to bug #4172

-Technologov

[Frank Mehnert]

Please reopen if still relevant with VBox 4.0.6.