From: Emilio Lopez [mailto:emiliol...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:54 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem with OracleVM VirtualBox and Debian Testing
>On Jan 21, 2014 2:53 PM, "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.mol...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > I have installed OracleVM VirtualBox v4.3.6 r91406 on my Laptop [...] > Debian v-7.3.0 runs without any problems. > > However, I have repeatedly encountered what I consider to be a rather strange problem with Debian Testing. Installation of Testing in a VirtualBox proceeds without any problems, but every time that I install a new application VirtuaBox crashes when I attempt execution > > Thanks in advance. > > Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set > Just a guest. Do you have enough free space in the host to allow virtual hard drive file grow? Emiliollbb It would appear that the problem was due to the fact that I elected the backports option during installation. I reinstalled without that option and all now seems to be well. Go figure..