Yes I experanced the same situation yesterday. I ran /etc/rc.d/vbox setup and then reboot, seemed resolved. Except that of of my vm in a saved session can no more resotre, i have to discard and boot as fresh, not hurting much. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Martín Cigorraga wrote:

I wonder if anyone else is experimenting sudden reboots and freezes while trying to run VirtualBox with latest kernel.

Arch: x86_64 Kernel: [core/kernel26 2.6.35.4-1] DE/WM: both KDE SC 4.5 and Awesome 3. On KDE everytime I want to launch a VM PC reboots all of a sudden, on Awesome simple freezes :S Video driver: [catalyst/catalyst 10.8-2] with xorg-server-backclear 1.8.1.902-1, xvba-video 0.7.3-1 and lib32-catalyst-utils 10.8-2 installed. VirtualBox: [aur/virtualbox_bin 3.2.8-1] v. 3.2.8r64453

/var/log/errors.log tail's: Aug 30 01:51:13 localhost sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed Aug 30 01:51:13 localhost sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed Aug 30 01:51:25 localhost kernel: vboxdrv: Warning: 2.6.31+ kernel detected. Most likely the hardware performance Aug 30 01:51:25 localhost kernel: vboxdrv: counter framework which can generate NMIs is active. You have to prevent Aug 30 01:51:25 localhost kernel: vboxdrv: the usage of hardware performance counters by Aug 30 01:51:25 localhost kernel: vboxdrv: echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid Aug 30 01:53:12 localhost kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: VirtualBox/9282/0x00000002 Aug 30 01:53:12 localhost kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: VirtualBox/9254/0x00000003 Aug 30 01:53:12 localhost kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: X/8725/0x00000003 Aug 30 01:54:34 localhost NetworkManager[3623]: nm_setting_ip4_config_get_dhcp_hostname: assertion `NM_IS_SETTING_IP4_CONFIG (setting)' failed

/var/log/kernel.log tail's: Aug 30 01:58:49 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Aug 30 01:58:49 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs (sdb2): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Aug 30 01:58:50 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs (sdc5): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Aug 30 01:58:50 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs (sdc1): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Aug 30 01:58:52 localhost kernel: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15 Aug 30 01:58:52 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 31 Aug 30 01:58:52 localhost kernel: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Aug 30 01:58:52 localhost kernel: Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Aug 30 01:59:07 localhost kernel: fuse init (API version 7.14) Aug 30 02:02:13 localhost kernel: warning: `VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)

I can't seem to find errors in the other log files (kernel, syslog and dmsg).

-Martín

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