On 09-12-2010 06:39, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, just a heads up for those that use virtualbox_bin from AUR: > > I experienced a system freeze problem on a dell P4 box with > VirtualBox-3.2.12 causing the machine to slowly freeze, become unresponsive, > then hardlock. WinXP (guest) starts fine, but then it will freeze, followed by > the kde taskbar, and then a minute or two later, the mouse and keyboard freeze > and the box is locked. (hard reset required) I went through this lockup process > twice to make sure. Downgrading to VirtualBox-3.2.10 solved the problem for me. > > Prior to updating the i686 box, I did another VirtualBox-3.2.12 upgrade on a > x86_64 box (XP guest as well), and all is working well. So it looks like it may > be some issue or memory leak that is killing the i686 package. I (and others) > have dropped notes with the AUR package. > > Does the machine where it worked well support VT-x/AMD-V and is it enabled? The only relevant info I can remember of is [1] and the link provided by wonder [2]. Maybe that problem isn't completely fixed or it may be an unrelated bug. [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=108103 [2] http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7605 -- Mauro Santos
