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3 Atlas computation errors in one day after upgrading VirtualBox to 6.0.0.
Tullio

I've been using the 6.0.0 Release Candidate 1, Build 127378 without issue, although I did have to run the installer 'as Administrator'. I see the actually released upgrade is build 127566 so presumably they've fixed the install. I'll change over to the Official Release in the next day or so.
All my hosts are Win10.
2 hosts done. I let the VMs Save before the upgrade and all 6 over the 2 machines Restored correctly 8¬)
1 host still to do; it turned itself off overnight and one of the Tasks reset its time to zero after c.11hrs actual runtime so now, at 21hrs, 47% elapsed, it still claims 24hrs remaining. Just curious to see how long it will go.
[a little shy of 27hrs]

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Tullio

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v2
VirtualBox 6.0.2 (released January 15 2019)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
User interface: fixed creation of desktop shortcuts for starting virtual machines (bug #18207)
User interface: allow the first run window to selecting host drives (bug #18230)
User interface: fixed attaching empty host optical drives (bug #18223)
User interface: implemented a new virtual optical disk creation window
USB: modified Linux backends to reset USB devices (previously, most guest attempts to reset USB devices were ignored)
PCnet: fixed a regression which caused some PCnet PCI guest drivers to not detect the emulated hardware (bug #18286)
Linux hosts: fixed conflict between Debian and Oracle build desktop files (bug #18264)
Linux and MacOS hosts: VirtualBoxVM command not accessible (bug #18257)
Windows guests: multiple monitor fixes with VBoxSVGA graphics
Windows guests: black screen with VBoxSVGA graphics when 3D is disabled (bug #18205)
Linux guests: fixed building drivers on SLES 12.4 (bug #18213)
Linux guests: fixed building shared folder driver with older kernels (bug #18238)
OS/2 shared folders: fixed write regression introduced in 6.0.0 GA

VirtualBox 6.0.4 (released January 28 2019)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Virtualization core: support Shanghai/Zhaoxin CPUs.
User interface: handle command line arguments to VirtualBox correctly (bugs #18206 and #18197)
User interface: improvements to machine manager window, virtual optical disk creator, storage selector window and log viewer window
User interface: various small fixes and improvements
Audio: implemented time scheduling for the AC'97 device emulation to keep audio and video in sync
Graphics: basic support for VMSVGA graphics device in virtual machines using EFI
Network: fix occasional NATNet crashes (bug #13899)
Network: worked around problems in certain PCnet drivers on old operating systems
Serial: fixed connecting to pseudo terminals on POSIX hosts (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
Linux hosts and guests: fix for building kernel modules against Linux 5.0. Thank you Kyle Laker
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v6
VirtualBox 6.0.6 (released April 17 2019)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Virtualization core: nested AMD virtualization fixes
User interface: fixed copying directories in file manager
User interface: fixed operation progress in file manager when copying content
User interface: fixed operation progress when deleting snapshots
User interface: fixed unattended installation of recent Ubuntu guests
User interface: various additional improvements
Storage: fixed loading saved states for LsiLogic devices (6.0.0 regression; bug #18263)
Storage: fixed fixed reading certain QCOW2 images and support version 3 of the format readonly
Storage: Improved IDE PCI emulation to allow NetWare IDE drivers to use bus-mastering
Graphics: Improved VMSVGA support to work with old X servers which previously showed only a badly scrambled screen
Graphics: fixed invisible mouse cursor with VMSVGA emulation and without mouse integration (bug #18239)
Graphics: make EFI work with VMSVGA emulation (bug #18282)
Graphics: remember last guest screen size VMSVGA emulation
Graphics: fix RDP to guests using VMSVGA emulation
Graphics: various additional VMSVGA emulation fixes
Audio: implemented audio device enumeration for the DirectSound backend
Network: fixed unwanted padding bytes in Windows host adaptor network packets (bug #18202 and bug #18355)
Serial: fixed possible crash on Windows when using a host device (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
Serial: fixed loopback handling in the emulation causing garbage to be sent during boot with Linux guests (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
Shared folders: fixed duplicate folders after restoring a saved state (bug #18373 and other)
Drag and drop: fixed copying files from guest host (bug #18305)
Recording: fixed modifying settings via VBoxManage (bug #18494)
VBoxManage: crash fix (bug #18341)
Fixed hangs during failed virtual machine start-up
Windows host: fix unwanted wake-ups from standby (bug #18549)
Windows host: disallow Pause as a host key (bug #18482)
Linux host and guest: support Linux 5.0 and 5.1, thank you Valdis Kletnieks (see also bug #18515)
Linux host: support kernel 4.4.169 (bug #18315)
Linux host: fix logging when building Linux kernel modules (bug #18226)
Linux host: clarified building Linux host drivers with secure boot (bug #18312)
FreeBSD host: compilation fixes
Installers: reduced size of packages
Web services: work with Java 11
LibreSSL compilation fix, thank you Stefan Strogin
Windows guests: fixed running applications which use complex display topologies with WDDM driver, fixed Skype for Business hangs (bug #17092)
Windows guests: fixed an occasional guest crash with WDDM driver and VBoxSVGA adapter (bug #18369)
Windows guests: shared folder file creation detection issue (bug #9276)
Linux guests: shared folder performance and reliability improvements and missing features (bugs #17360, #819)
OS/2 guests: shared folder fixes (bug #18376 and bug #18379)

ID: 38567 · ReplyQuote

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v8
VirtualBox 6.0.8 (released May 13 2019)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Core: fix saved state resume failures (bugs #18265 and #18331)
User interface: show full file location in New Medium window.
User interface: fix mouse click pass-through problems in multi-screen virtual machines (6.0.6 regression, bug #18567)
Graphics: fixed a crash when powering off a VM without graphics controller (bug #18570)
API: partial fix for dealing with VM config conflicting with other VMs related to medium UUIDs, now correctly flags VM as inaccessible (bug #17908)
Windows hosts: Support paths longer than 4096 characters on in shared folders
Linux hosts: fix kernel module build breakage in non-default build set-ups (bug #18620, thank you Ambroz Bizjak)
Linux hosts: fix kernel module build breakage in debug build set-ups (bug #18621, thank you Ambroz Bizjak)
Windows guests: notice file size increases in shared folders which were missed in certain cases
Linux guests: make shared folders work with Linux 3.16.35
Linux guests: fix incorrectly read-only shared folders (bug #18345)

I have running 6.0.8 last week and the issue with 'missing heartbeat' (killing a task),
I sometimes saw with versions 6.0.0 and 6.0.2, I did not see so far, although stressing my system during the Pentathlon ;)

Hope this is the right place.
Some upgrade screwed up my VB install a while ago, so I dug around and managed to get 5.something working, but it would always fail to show the VM display windows in CMS@Home:
So last night I dug around again and came up with VB 6.0.8 r130520 (Qt5.6.1), but now tasks fail within 10 seconds: https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=2778838
Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? It happens in both lhcathome.cern.ch and lhcathomedev.cern.ch.

.Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? It happens in both lhcathome.cern.ch and lhcathomedev.cern.ch.

When you don't have any tasks running or paused/suspended, are BOINC-slots empty and in VirtualBox File Manager are there no remnants of old VM's?

.Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? It happens in both lhcathome.cern.ch and lhcathomedev.cern.ch.

When you don't have any tasks running or paused/suspended, are BOINC-slots empty and in VirtualBox File Manager are there no remnants of old VM's?

When I run virtualbox no old (or indeed any!) VMs are seen.

Did you rebuild the vbox kernel modules?
No VMs must be running.
Then run as root 'rcvboxdrv setup'.
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typo
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Did you rebuild the vbox kernel modules?
No VMs must be running.
Then run as root 'rcvboxdrv setup'.

typo
:-(

Hmm, I had done sudo vboxconfig but when I used your suggestion it still seemed to have similar results:
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=2779024

You are running outside WLCG.
What's about using openhtc.io instead of the old Definition for a better Performance?

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v10
VirtualBox 6.0.10 (released July 16 2019)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
User interface: fix issue inputing controller names (bug #11579)
User interface: fix resize problems with recent Linux hosts (bug #18677)
Serial: fixed guru meditation when raw mode is enabled (bug #18632)
Serial: fixed possible VM crash under certain circumstances
USB: Fixed 'unrecoverable error' problems in OHCI emulation (bug #18593, 6.0.6 regression)
USB: improve captured device identification
VBoxManage: fix reversed reporting of audio input and output (thank you Socratis Kalogrianitis)
VBoxManage: fix controlling recording for running machine (bug #18723)
Guest control service: various fixes
Windows hosts: fix problems copying files from shared folders (bug #18569)
Linux hosts: kernel module build fixes for various kernels (bug #18316)
Linux hosts: support UEFI secure boot driver signing on Ubuntu and Debian hosts (bug #11577)
Linux hosts: fix focus grabbing problems with recent Qt versions (builds from source only; thank you Fabian Vogt (SUSE) and Larry Finger; bug #18745)
Windows guests: many shared folders fixes
Windows guests: fix other services failing if seamless mode was not available
Linux guests: kernel module build fixes for various kernels (bugs #18677 and #18697; fixes by Larry Finger and Gianfranco Costamagna)
Linux guests: do not try to load old versions of libcrypt on recent guests in Guest Additions tools (bug #18682)
Linux guests: udev rules for guest kernel modules did not always take effect in time
Linux guests/VMSVGA: do not forget the guest screen size after a guest reboot
OS/2 guests: various shared folder fixes

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v12
VirtualBox 6.0.12 (released September 03 2019)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
OCI export: handle empty disk image correctly
API: fix potential crash when using the medium I/O functionality
VBoxManage: fixed documentation of VBoxManage modifyvm uarttype documentation (bug #18759)
Network: scrub inbound TCP URG pointer, working around incorrect OOB handling
USB: Improved identification of power-saved devices on Windows hosts
Audio: in the AC97 work around buggy guest drivers which reprogram the sampling rate, breaking audio in and/or audio out
Windows host: fixed crashes on startup with software trying to inject code into a VM process
Linux host and guest: fix kernel module build for SLES 12 SP4 kernel
3D: fixed state saving and loading when the VBoxVGA graphics adapter is used with 3D enabled (bug #18802, 6.0.10 regression)
Windows guests: fixed mouse cursor visibility updating
Windows guests: fixed graphics corruption in Windows 10 search menu with VBoxSVGA adapter
Windows guests: fixed dwm.exe crashes related to the WDDM driver for VBoxSVGA adapter when the VM has lots of RAM
MacOS Guest Additions fail to start in 6.0.10 (bug #18793)
Windows guests: fixed crashes when using shared folders (bug #18766)
Linux guests: unprivileged users unable to create files inside shared folders (bug #18737)
Linux guests: improve compatibility of vboxvideo.ko kernel module build logic (bug #18869)

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.0#v14
VirtualBox 6.0.14 (released October 15 2019)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Virtualization core: fixed an invalid-guest state guru meditation in some rare circumstances on Intel hosts
Virtualization core: some fixes for systems with lots of processors
Audio: relaxed VRM / VRA (variable rate audio) bit checks to provide more compatibility for guests running ALSA setups with the AC'97 emulation
USB: made device capturing for passthrough more accurate and reliable on Windows host
Network: fixed potential issue with interrupt signalling for network adapters in UEFI guests
3D: fixed flicker and redraw issues when using VBoxSVGA or VMSVGA graphics adapter (bugs #18562, #18956)
3D: fixed crash with some applications when using VBoxSVGA or VMSVGA graphics adapter (bug #18638)
macOS host: fix crash of GUI VM process which showed up frequently with 10.15 Catalina (bug #18990)
Linux host: support Linux 5.3, thank you Larry Finger (see also bug #18911)
Linux host: improve python version detection during rpm package creation, can change package dependencies and fix some installation problems
Linux guests: calls to aio_read(3) and aio_write(3) may fail inside shared folders (bug #18805)
Linux guests: fix problem with shared folder unmounting in service script, thank you Denis Ryndine (bug #18853)
Linux guests: VBox 6.0.10 GAs fail to compile on Red Hat/CentOS/Oracle Linux 7.7 and Red Hat 8.1 Beta (bug #18917)