VirtualBox virtual machines are frozen after suspend-resume

[Evan Huus]

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

On a Dell Inspiron 530, running up-to-date 8.10.

Suspend-resume works fine with all of my apps but one: suspending with a virtualbox vm running causes it (the vm) to be frozen when I resume. Everything else I have open resumes fine, but I have to pkill each seperate virtualbox process. Additionally, if I then try to start the vm again, it freezes again. I have to do a full reboot before using virtualbox again. If I shut down all of my vms, then suspend-resume, I can then start another vm without problems.

[Evan Huus (eapache)]

Fixed upstream in 2.1.0, but there are too many other changes for backporting to be worthwhile/feasible.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Re-opening the bug.
It should get marked fixed when 2.1.0 enters Ubuntu.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ose - 2.1.0-dfsg-1ubuntu1

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virtualbox-ose (2.1.0-dfsg-1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian experimental (LP: #304859). Remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - DKMS support
      - For the complete list of added, moved and dropped files see the
        log of 2.0.2-dfsg-0ubuntu1
        - virtualbox-ose-guest-utils.udev => virtualbox-ose-source.udev
      - debian/rules
      - Refer to virtualbox-ose-source instead of -modules:
        - virtualbox-ose.files/VBox.sh
        - patches/04-vboxdrv-references.dpatch
        - patches/13-module-mismatch.dpatch
      - debian/control:
        - Recommend virtualbox-ose-source instead of -modules
        - The -source packages depends are changed for DKMS
    - Autoload kernel module
      - LOAD_VBOXDRV_MODULE=1 in virtualbox-ose.default
      - Keep adjusted debian/virtualbox-ose.preinst.in to remove old vboxdrv
        conffile
      - debian/virtualbox-ose-source.postinst: call "virtualbox-ose restart",
        depending on LOAD_VBOXDRV_MODULE
    - virtualbox-ose-guest-utils: Install vboxvideo_drv_15.so instead
      of vboxvideo_drv_14.so (LP: #292856)
      - debian/rules
    - Enable 64 bit guest support when building on AMD64 (LP: #271651)
      - debian/rules (VBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS)
    - Virtualbox should go in Accessories, not in System tools (LP: #288590)
      - virtualbox-ose.files/virtualbox-ose.desktop
    - debian/patches/13-disable-update-action.dpatch
    - Change Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser to XS-Original-Vcs-*
      - debian/control
    - virtualbox-ose Conflicts, Replaces, Provides: virtualbox-2.0
      - debian/control
    - debian/control:
      - Bump provides of guest-utils to xserver-xorg-input-2.1
      - Bump provides of guest-utils to xserver-xorg-video-2.9
    - patches/15-fix-byteorder-hack-jaunty.dpatch to
      fix FTBFS on Jaunty (patch from Nathan, LP: #278466)
  * virtualbox-ose-guest-source.links.in: fix install of r0drv to vboxvfs
    (there have been two lines for vboxadd only) (LP: #310647)
  * Add vboxnetflt to DKMS system
    - add virtualbox-ose-source.files/do_Module.symvers which is used
      in PRE_BUILD/POST_BUILD (dkms.conf)
  * Add patches/16-fix-ftbfs-morePadding.dpatch to fix FTBFS on i386
    during tests (Thanks Nathan Summers)
  * Fix grammar in virtualbox-ose.README.Debian.xml
  * mv virtualbox-ose.preinst{.in,} and fix
    Lintian error "maintainer-script-uses-dpkg-status-directly"
    - debian/rules
  * Closes the following bugs in Launchpad:
    - VirtualBox virtual machines are frozen after suspend-resume
      (LP: #292794)
    - Clean LocalConfig.kmk in clean target (LP: #309205)

virtualbox-ose (2.1.0-dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    This one doesn't use /dev/net/tun anymore. Closes: #509524
  * Removed obsoleted vditool, VBoxAddIF.sh and VBoxTunctl.

virtualbox-ose (2.0.6-dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream version. Closes: #497840
  * Do not warn user about losing snapshots anymore, this is supposed to be a
    thing of the past. Closes: #500101
  * Made guest utils init script more verbose if module was not loadable.
  ...

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/292794

[A. Denton (aquina)]

Yes, Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) reported that the bug was reported. However its not *exactly* the same bug. The environment is similar and the description matches, except that the VM freeze happens during suspend (black screen w/ cursor in the upper left corner) and *not* during resume. Killing of VirtualBox processes was not necessary.