Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#6575 closed defect (fixed)
New Fixed Hard Disk fails in Ubuntu 9.10
| Reported by: | amanda | Owned by: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 3.1.6 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
When I try to create a new virtual machine through the GUI, I get as far as the progress meter indicating that "Create New Virtual Disk: creating fixed hard disk storage unit '/home/amand..." the progress meter loads at 0% and hangs there. If i hit the red "x" button, it reports it is canceling but also makes no progress. It is using a ton of CPU and not getting anywhere.
[0 amanda@luna ~]$ top
top - 09:36:05 up 1:57, 2 users, load average: 1.98, 1.93, 1.68
Tasks: 190 total, 3 running, 187 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.9%us, 54.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 37.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3056844k total, 2933156k used, 123688k free, 50000k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1907852k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9282 amanda 20 0 22696 6256 4340 S 99 0.2 33:16.19 VBoxSVC
6306 amanda 20 0 353m 145m 25m S 8 4.9 12:04.59 firefox
1315 root 20 0 162m 42m 11m R 7 1.4 4:41.92 Xorg
2643 amanda 20 0 156m 4728 3592 S 3 0.2 1:47.87 pulseaudio
5612 amanda 20 0 402m 135m 23m S 2 4.6 7:41.77 twhirl
2750 amanda 20 0 165m 34m 8288 S 1 1.2 0:32.01 compiz.real
9258 amanda 20 0 111m 35m 21m S 1 1.2 0:49.77 VirtualBox
5559 amanda 20 0 39676 12m 9476 S 1 0.4 0:00.68 gnome-terminal
5606 amanda 20 0 115m 41m 19m S 0 1.4 0:07.64 pidgin
10742 amanda 20 0 87332 29m 13m S 0 1.0 0:03.15 gnome-panel
11283 amanda 20 0 2472 1208 884 R 0 0.0 0:00.06 top
1 root 20 0 2624 1476 1040 S 0 0.0 0:01.33 init
Ubuntu: 9:10, File system: ext4.
VirtualBox version installed: 3.1.6-59338_Ubuntu_karmic, from the Karmic repository.
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free
I definitely have plenty of space. The drive is meant to be 15G. I've got 49G available:
[0 amanda@luna ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 78G 26G 49G 35% /
udev 1.5G 344K 1.5G 1% /dev
none 1.5G 1.1M 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
none 1.5G 116K 1.5G 1% /var/run
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
none 78G 26G 49G 35% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs
/home/amanda/.Private
78G 26G 49G 35% /home/amanda
I totally removed VirtualBox and had to restart before I could remove my .VirtualBox/HardDisks directory. Reinstalled and the same thing is happening.
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
I do have a successful Virtualbox installation running on a flexible size drive.
comment:3 by , 14 years ago
Still relevant? If so, on what file system is the directory with your virtual disk images located?


Also ... I don't see anything in /var/log/syslog. /var/log/messages, has only this line from startup:
Are there other logs I should be looking at?