Paul, On Wednesday 13 August 2008, paul williamson wrote: > I have been using 1.5.2 for some time now on my Evesham laptop, running > openSuse 10.3 as host and Windows XP as guest. > > I initially had some problems a few weeks ago, trying to update to 1.6.2. > That appeared to work fine. but I had the problem that it would not > re-start a machine after I had chosen "save the machine state" from the > shutdown menu. > > I tried today to upgrade to 1.6.4, and I couldn't get any of my .vdi files > to run at all. They appeared to start loading, then I got a screen saying > the I had changed hardware, and to try re-booting in safe mode, or last > known good configuration etc. > > I also tried 1.6.2. again today and had the same problem.
Please change the IDE controller from PIIX4 to PIIX3 in the VM settings. Until VBox 1.5 the IDE controller type was set to PIIX3 by default, starting with VBox 1.6 we used the PIIX4 as default. However, it should not happen that VMs which were already created change the PIIX type, so this is probably a bug which we have to fix. Though setting the IDE controller to PIIX3 should help you boot your Windows guests again (Windows is very picky if the disk controller changes). > I seem to remember that I should have seen a screen asking me to save, or > backup and save, some new settings. I saw that before when I tried 1.6.2, > but didn't see it today. This will only happen if you upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6.x. > I also have another hard-drive for this laptop on which I have installed > openSuse 11.0. I had identical problems when I tried to run 1.6.4. on that > yesterday. I eventually managed to get it to boot a .vdi using "last known > good configuration", but here as well it would not let me re-start a > machine after using "save the machine state". Same here, this is a VM setting which must fit your guest. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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