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

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

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From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-amd64/51134: Random shutdown (power button pressed) inside VirtualBox 5 on Windows 7
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 17:53:19 +0700

     Date:        Fri, 13 May 2016 15:10:01 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        <Tomas.T.Bodzar%tieto.com@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20160513151001.8604D7A48D%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |  Just for info NetBSD relase 7 runs here just fine.
 
 For completeness, I had no problem with NetBSD as such on vbox5,
 (other than the warm reboot one Christos mentioned, which I saw too,
 but I doubt that is a NetBSD problem either) the problems are all
 with vbox itself.  For example, one is the little (scolls away) menu
 that exists in fullscreen mode (which is what I use all the time).
 I have a 1920x1080 (or whatever HDTV is) display - vbox 5 put that
 menu about where it would be for a 1024x768 (or something) display
 - ie: more or less in the middle of the (larger) screen -- going into & out
 of fullscreen more enough times (ie: not just once) would fix it (put it
 in the middle at the bottom of the screen), but ...
 
 Also (this one appears a lot on the vbox lists) it does a very poor job
 of claiming USB discs (vbox 4, with linux host, simply works - same
 linux version as host, I think I had it work twice with vbox5, in
 many dozens of attempts, and no clue why it worked those two times
 - since I do backups to that kind of device, having them working
 reliably is kind of important (the discs are mostly cgd'd so the useful
 part won't mount anywhere but NetBSD.)   None of the suggested workarounds
 worked for me (except those two times.)
 
 kre