[gentoo-user] Re: Be cautious about virtualbox-4.2.8 and Win7 guests

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 03/02/2013 10:55 AM, walt wrote:
> On 03/01/2013 10:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:06 AM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> After updating vbox today I got crashes on login with two different
>>> Win7 guests (gentoo ~amd64 host).
>>>
>>> Luckily, only the most recent snapshot crashed and I was able to
>>> boot normally with the second most recent snapshot (both guests).
>>>
>>> I didn't lose anything important because the only thing I use
>>> Windows for is to run Windows Update :) (know thine enemy, etc)
>>>
>>> Maybe if you have important stuff on a Win7 guest you should make
>>> an extra snapshot just before you update to vbox-4.2.8 in case you
>>> need to delete the last one.
>>>
>>> BTW, I had no problems with linux guests so far.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What did the crashes say?
> 
> The usual :)  "Windows has encountered a problem and must close..."
> 
> Just now I updated a second gentoo machine that (I thought) is the
> same as this one, but I didn't the crashes on that machine, so I don't
> know what to think now.  I hope nobody else has the same problem.

Crap, I just noticed that virtualbox-modules-4.2.8 won't compile against
the latest 3.8.x kernels :(  That means I've been using the 4.2.6 kernel
odules while running vbox-4.2.8.  That might explain the crashes but I
can't say for certain.  At least it's an excuse :)