VirtualBox

Ticket #5681 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 8 months ago

Last modified 6 months ago

VBox forgets that DVD drive is set for passthrough => fixed in SVN, fix will be in 3.1.4

Reported by: OOPMan Assigned to:
Priority: major Component: DVD
Version: VirtualBox 3.1.2 Keywords: passthrough
Cc: Guest type: Windows
Host type: Linux

Description

After installing VBox 3.1.0 r55467 I find that each time I start VirtualBox the DVD drive attached to my VMs is no longer marked for passthrough. I have to re-enable passthrough on each VM each time I start the VBox tool.

Please fix it so that the Passthrough checkbox`s state is saved as it was in 3.0.x

Attachments

Logs.tar.bz2 (21.9 kB) - added by paulengel on 2010-01-13 21:29:01.
Logs director from machine where the passthrough setting keeps getting lost

Change History

2009-12-11 14:29:38 changed by klaus

  • summary changed from VBox forgets that DVD drive is set for passthrough to VBox forgets that DVD drive is set for passthrough => fixed in SVN, fix will be in 3.1.2.

2009-12-17 15:53:56 changed by frank

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

2010-01-13 21:29:01 changed by paulengel

  • attachment Logs.tar.bz2 added.

Logs director from machine where the passthrough setting keeps getting lost

2010-01-13 21:30:41 changed by paulengel

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

This bug appears to be back. I'm running 3.1.2 r56127. Every time I start the one VM that needs passthrough disabled I need to go to settings and check the box again every time.

2010-01-14 19:05:01 changed by klaus

  • summary changed from VBox forgets that DVD drive is set for passthrough => fixed in SVN, fix will be in 3.1.2 to VBox forgets that DVD drive is set for passthrough => fixed in SVN.

Confirmed that the bug is still there in 3.1.2. And confirmed that it is gone in SVN.

Scratching my head. There must be another bug in the 3.1 branch which causes this problem.

2010-01-14 19:19:27 changed by klaus

A little more clicking around shows that the setting is saved perfectly fine to the config file, but isn't read from it. Mystery...

2010-01-18 14:02:58 changed by klaus

  • version changed from VirtualBox 3.1.0 to VirtualBox 3.1.2.
  • summary changed from VBox forgets that DVD drive is set for passthrough => fixed in SVN to VBox forgets that DVD drive is set for passthrough => fixed in SVN, fix will be in 3.1.4.

Mystery resolved. It was a really odd bug specific to 3.1.0/3.1.2, which caused the setting to be dropped more or less at the very latest point possible, just when storing the value in the C++ object, and in a very non-obvious way.

2010-01-18 14:04:32 changed by klaus

In case someone wants the patch right away for building an OSE package, just let me know. It's a single line change.

2010-02-12 23:21:09 changed by frank

  • status changed from reopened to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.


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