RE: port-amd64/51134: Random shutdown (power button pressed) inside VirtualBox 5 on Windows 7

[<Tomas.T.Bodzar%tieto.com@localhost>]

Hi,

Yeah wonders of enterprise and Oracle worlds :-) Just for info NetBSD relase 7 runs here just fine.

You are free to do whatever you find suitable with that "bug". 

S pozdravem / Best regards,

Tomáš Bodžár

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From: Robert Elz [mailto:kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost] 
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 2:35 PM
To: port-amd64-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost; gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost; netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost; Bodzar Tomas T <Tomas.T.Bodzar%tieto.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: port-amd64/51134: Random shutdown (power button pressed) inside VirtualBox 5 on Windows 7

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From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-amd64/51134: Random shutdown (power button pressed) inside VirtualBox 5 on Windows 7
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 19:31:20 +0700

 For what it is worth, I gave up on Virtualbox 5, it just isn't  stable (bug free) enough yet to waste time on.  I went back to  Virtualbox 4 (whatever the latest one is 4.3.38 or something, though  that's at least one update beyond when I reverted) which works much better.
 
 I do host it on linux though, not windows - I will sink quite low when  needed, but not that low.
 
 But beware, vpox 5 changes the vm config format, so anything that  vpox 5 has ever run on won't work again with vbox 4 - fortunately,  the disc image formats are compat, so all that's needed is to delete  the screwed machine config, and make a new vbox client using the same disc  images as before - a bit tedious to redo all the virtualbox config  but better than running vpox 5.
 
 The only problem I have now is that it keeps trying to convince me that  there's a newer better version (5.0.20 at the minute) that I should be
 upgrading to.    Blah!
 
 kre