Certainly not vintage, asking here because you guys are smart! I had Windows 7 Pro 32-bit installed on VirtualBox under Ubuntu. It worked fine, albeit very slow. Last week I bought a new motherboard, processor, and RAM. What I had was about 8 years old and only 2GB RAM. The new specs include a 64-bit processor and 16GB RAM (expandable to 64). I didn't have to reinstall anything -- plugged in my SSD and the OS and all programs worked fine, just a whole lot faster! The only thing that broke is Windows under Virtualbox. It kept saying "aborted" upon booting. I uninstalled it and replaced it with the 64-bit version. Same problem -- it aborts during boot, can't even install it. Googling wasn't particularly helpful. Any ideas?
Disabling USB2 fixed it! Strange yet true.
If you haven't done so already, increase the amount of ram (and number of cpus) available to Virtualbox/windows, if you'd like faster performance, especially now that you probably have a core i5 and DDR3 16GB. It should run quite nicely now. Congrats on the new hardware btw. -- Steven Toth - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com +1.646.355.8490
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Steven Toth via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Disabling USB2 fixed it! Strange yet true.
If you haven't done so already, increase the amount of ram (and number of cpus) available to Virtualbox/windows, if you'd like faster performance, especially now that you probably have a core i5 and DDR3 16GB. It should run quite nicely now.
Congrats on the new hardware btw.
-- Steven Toth - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com +1.646.355.8490
More likely when you updated your BIOS to turn off USB2 (why?) you or the update program also changed other things, in particular turning on VT-x support, which is not activated by default, assuming / guessing you have an AMD CPU motherboard because you've never been a fan of intel CPUs in the vintage world.. Try turning USB2 support back on and make note of the other settings just in case, no need to disable USB 2 support as this will cause issues with older devices. It will not hurt anything to try as long as you make sure that you only make that one change. -- -Bill-
More likely when you updated your BIOS to turn off USB2 (why?)
No, that's not what I meant. Googling led to a lot of posts about similar problems. A few people said disabling USB2 * in the Virtualbox settings * did the trick. I didn't touch the hardware BIOS.
update program also changed other things, in particular turning on VT-x support, which is not activated by default, assuming / guessing you have an AMD CPU motherboard because you've never been a fan of intel CPUs in the vintage world..
Nothing against Intel. :) Yes I bought an AMD but only because it's cheaper and the specs were better!
Try turning USB2 support back on
Keyboard and mouse are both USB and both work fine in Ubuntu and in the virtualized W7. I tried re-enabling USB2 anyhow (again, we're talking in Virtualbox, not the BIOS) because W7 didn't find drives for a USB stick. Turning that back on promptly made W7/VB abort again. It's a low priority; I will figure that out (how to make USB sticks work there) another day.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Try turning USB2 support back on
Keyboard and mouse are both USB and both work fine in Ubuntu and in the virtualized W7.
I tried re-enabling USB2 anyhow (again, we're talking in Virtualbox, not the BIOS) because W7 didn't find drives for a USB stick. Turning that back on promptly made W7/VB abort again. It's a low priority; I will figure that out (how to make USB sticks work there) another day.
Ah. I thought it was a hardware issue, did not realize you meant virtual USB2. I withdraw my remarks... glad to hear you've found success. -- -Bill-
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Try turning USB2 support back on
Keyboard and mouse are both USB and both work fine in Ubuntu and in the virtualized W7.
I tried re-enabling USB2 anyhow (again, we're talking in Virtualbox, not the BIOS) because W7 didn't find drives for a USB stick. Turning that back on promptly made W7/VB abort again. It's a low priority; I will figure that out (how to make USB sticks work there) another day.
Do you have the VirtualBox Extension pack installed which matches your version of Virtualbox exactly? The use of USB 2.0 requires the Extension Pack. I've had similar issues in the past where I updated to the latest VirtualBox but didn't install the corresponding Extension Pack. It caused issues with various virtual machines which were expecting the Extension Pack to be present (since it was present before updating Virtualbox when the guest OS was installed). Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller http://www.devinheitmueller.com AIM: devinheitmueller
Do you have the VirtualBox Extension pack installed which matches your version of Virtualbox exactly?
I installed an extension pack at the same time as when I installed Virtualbox (a few months ago). I suppose it's possible that one of the routine Ubuntu updates also installed a newer version of Virtualbox, which would have caused a mismatch. Will have to check that...
New motherboards frequently have a setting to allow virtualization in the BIOS.It allowed assigning more than 1 core and more ram when i did it. Christopher. From: Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Evan Koblentz <evan@snarc.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 9:41 PM Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Virtualbox problems Certainly not vintage, asking here because you guys are smart! I had Windows 7 Pro 32-bit installed on VirtualBox under Ubuntu. It worked fine, albeit very slow. Last week I bought a new motherboard, processor, and RAM. What I had was about 8 years old and only 2GB RAM. The new specs include a 64-bit processor and 16GB RAM (expandable to 64). I didn't have to reinstall anything -- plugged in my SSD and the OS and all programs worked fine, just a whole lot faster! The only thing that broke is Windows under Virtualbox. It kept saying "aborted" upon booting. I uninstalled it and replaced it with the 64-bit version. Same problem -- it aborts during boot, can't even install it. Googling wasn't particularly helpful. Any ideas?
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