VirtualBox引起Win7重启

这篇文章之前的名字是：VirtualBox内存分配偏小导致引起Win7重启，现在才发现自己误导了很多人。

之前的出现的状况是，在VirtualBox虚拟机里面，安装了两台虚拟机，在使用的过程中经常出现宿主主机Win7自动重启的情况。我一直认为是内存不足的原因引起系统重启。

在VirtualBox 4.2.18 (released 2013-09-06，下载地址https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)版本之前，使用Virtualbox的时候经常出现宿主主机重启的现象。引起的原因不是宿主主机的内存不足，而已VirtualBox的一个bug。从VirtualBox 4.2.18 的change log（https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog）中可以验证这一点，下面的红色的第二条即引起宿主主机（我是在Win7下安装的VirtualBox）。如过宿主主机是32位操作系统（32bit Win7系统），而VirtualBox里面安装的是64位操作系统（我虚拟机安装的是64位centos），这样可能经常引起宿主主机重启。在经常碰到这个问题的时候，我也曾经想到过向oracle开发团队，提出自己的问题，而因为自己的偷懒而没有反馈。

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
• VMM: fixed potential crashes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11979)
• GUI / seamless: properly handle mouse wheel scroll events
• GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)
• GUI: prevent crashes under certain conditions on X11 hosts
• 3D: multiscreen fixes (incorrect mouse position, flickers)
• 3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (multiscreen, seamless)
• Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)
• Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)
• VBoxManage: on snapshot take, --pause is default and --live is for doing live snapshots
• VBoxSVC: don't crash on systems with many VLAN interfaces (Solaris hosts only)
• Network: after the host resumes from suspend, disconnect and reconnect the virtual network cables to force renewing the DHCP leases for the guests. So far only Mac OS X hosts and Windows hosts (bug#10063).
• NAT: on name server changes force a reconnect of the virtual network cable to notify the guest (Mac OS X hosts only)
• Mac OS X installer: keep previously installed Extension Packs on VirtualBox upgrade
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.11 fixes (bug #12001)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a potential kernel panic caused due to unexpected preemption due to logging.
• Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible when plugged into USB3 ports.
• Linux Additions: added PCI device identifier to vboxvideo.ko fixing DRI initialization under certain conditions (bug #11957)
• Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script with Linux 3.x kernels

另外，win7或者360工具的补丁更新会引起相同自动重启的状况。至于由于内存不足引起的宿主主机重启的情况应该不会发生。

目前我VirtualBox同时运行了3个64bit的centos系统，内存使用约75%，VirtualBox的资源消耗比较较少，这也是我一直坚持使用VirtualBox的原因。

前端时间，因为使用VirtualBox导致电脑经常重启，我尝试使用了下VMWare。今天上班发现不能ssh登录到centos，发现VMWare不能联网，桥接、NAT等方式都是过，都没法ping通网络。修改网络配置参数也不能使用，决定使用回VirtualBox。于是去Oracle网站上看看VirtualBox的更新，也发现了导致主机重启的bug原因所在。直接把VMWare删除掉，也不想纠结不能上网的原因了，毕竟还有狠多事情要做，还是直接卸载掉，眼不见为净。