[ale] VirtualBox & BSOD

[Don Kramer]

Actually I bet it's your host, do apt-get remove of VirtualBox, then
install the .deb for Ubuntu 11.10 ... and I bet it works.  And if you
happen to have a snapshot of before that BSOD, rolling back to that
couldn't hurt either.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Nolan Voight <nolan.voight at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, I didn't think I would ever see one of those again, but I run
> Win 7 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu 11.10 to play one game. This was fine
> for over a year, but three weeks after I upgraded from11.04 to 11.10,
> & recall no updates to VirtualBox after that, I got the BSOD on
> starting the CD that holds the game. I suspect it has to do with the
> Guest Additions, but those haven't been updated since August. Not
> asking for a solution here, just curious if anybody else has
> experienced this over the past couple of months. Just separating
> coincidences from causes.
>
> Have tried QEMU/KVM in the past week, but couldn't figure out how to
> speed up the display enough to actually play a game.
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