OS fails to boot in Virtualbox with Ubuntu guest additions installed

[PerfectCarl]

Hello,

I use Virtualbox 4.1.18 to test a nightly of Luna on my macbook with Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
The installation went Ok. And so the updates from internet.
So, I'm pretty sure that my installation is up to date (I ran the upgrade application first thing).

The problem is that the Ubuntu guest additions prevent the system to boot.
(The compilation didn't issue any warnings or error).
Once the system restarts, the boot fails to complete with a long message with hexa codes
and all.

So for the time being, I test Luna without the optimized drivers and such.
Which is a little painful. The performance is OK, though (good work, elementary team :)

Any idea what went wrong ?
Don't hesitate to contact me for further information.

Carl.

[PerfectCarl (name-is-carl)]

Oh, this is not a little painful. This is very painful : the mouse is seems to be messed without the guest additions.
I can't use any menus.
Bummer.

Keep up the good work, guys.
Cheers.

[PerfectCarl (name-is-carl)]

I attached some screenshot of the virtualbox additions compilation output
and the nasty boot errors.

The recovery console does work. So I'm able to provide more information
if needed.
Don't hesitate to ask for more info/log files.

Cheers,
Carl.

[PerfectCarl (name-is-carl)]

There is suspicious message in the build process :

...
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules
The headers for the current running kernel were not found. If the following
module compilation fails then this could be the reason.
...

Why do the headers are not there (or not in sync).
Does this matter ?

Cheers,
Carl.

[PerfectCarl (name-is-carl)]

Still trying to figuring that one out...

It seems that the header warning is bogus.
I executed the following :

$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-3.2.0-27-generic-pae is already the newest version.
linux-headers-3.2.0-27-generic-pae set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.

So the headers are present.

[PerfectCarl (name-is-carl)]

It seems that removinf ulatencyd fixed that issue.

sudo apt-get remove ulatencyd

I'll do some more test to assert the stability of the system in the coming days.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Luna will NOT be stable in VirtualBox with guest additions installed because the guest additions are tainted crap. See http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw

[PerfectCarl (name-is-carl)]

So, VMware all the way, then :)

Thanks for the heads up, I didn't know about virtualbox and ubuntu.