Debian Bug report logs - #502043
virtualbox-ose: Virtual machines freeze after suspend or hibernate

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tim Richardson <tim@tim-richardson.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: virtualbox-ose: Virtual machines freeze after suspend or hibernate

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:16:54 +1100

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.6.6-dfsg-2
Severity: important

I upgraded to the sid packages. Found no module for my 686 kernel so I built one with module assistant.

I have three virtual machines: a Debian VM, and two XP machines.
They all now freeze after suspend or hibernate on my laptop, which for me is a problem of severity grave.

I reverted to the testing versions, but had the same problem, so perhaps this is something introduced by recent kernel changes. I will test that.
I file this bug in case it is known already to the maintainers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.110         add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.23        Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                      2.7-14        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                    1:4.3.2-1     GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]   7.0.3-6       A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.6-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                    0.8.10-0.1    library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt                  3:3.3.8b-5    Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian            1.2.13-3      Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6                 4.3.2-1       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.5-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                1:1.1.9-1     X cursor management library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.32.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1                 1.1.24-2      XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxt6                     1:1.0.5-3     X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  virtualbox-ose-mod 1.6.6-dfsg-2+2.6.26-7 VirtualBox modules for Linux (kern

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
pn  bridge-utils                <none>       (no description available)
ii  virtualbox-ose-source       1.6.6-dfsg-2 x86 virtualization solution - kern

-- debconf information:
* virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: true

Message #10 received at 502043@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tim Richardson <tim@tim-richardson.net>

To: 502043@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Attached are good and bad .xml config files

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:50:22 +1100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

I had this problem in upgrading before, and the same solution worked:
delete the virtual machine and start again (keeping the same virtual
disk, of course).
I think the only change I make when I do this is to the .xml file.

Attached is the new, working one, and the old one which does causes the
virtual machine to crash on suspend.

Perhaps it gives a clue to the problem.

[Debian.xml (application/xml, attachment)]

[Debian.xml_old (application/xml, attachment)]

Message #15 received at 502043@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tim Richardson <tim@tim-richardson.net>

To: 502043@bugs.debian.org

Subject: hardware virtualisation is the problem

Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:47:04 +1100

The VM only resumes correctly if
<HardwareVirtEx enabled="false"/>

Message #22 received at 502043@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tim Richardson <tim@tim-richardson.net>

To: 502043@bugs.debian.org

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:41:53 +1100

Upstream says it won't be fixed until the next major release after
2.0.4. 

Here is a hack fix I've made to at least protect from data loss.


create /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00virtualBox and make it executable

put this in the script. I have hardcoded for the only VM I care about,
and you need to run it as the user who runs the virtual machine.

Obviously very ugly, but does the job. 


#!/bin/sh

#. "${PM_FUNCTIONS}"

case "$1" in
	hibernate|suspend)
		#suspend_nm
                sudo -u tim VBoxManage controlvm XP savestate
		;;
	thaw|resume)
		#resume_nm
		;;
	*) exit $NA
		;;
esac

Message #27 received at 502043-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>

To: 502043-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fixed in 2.1.0

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:20:05 +0100

With VBox 2.1.x now in sid this report can be closed.

Michael
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