Fix a VirtualBox Windows crash-on-pause issue

I’ve recently been spending a lot of time in the various virtualization apps — VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, and Sun VirtualBox. VirtualBox was recently upgraded to version 2.0.6, and after upgrading, I had issues with my Vista guest OS on my Mac Pro, which was previously working fine.

Whenever I chose to sleep or shut down Vista, the progress bar would move a bit at first, then jump back to the main VirtualBox window, where the Vista VM’s status would read “Aborted.” (Somewhat interestingly, the exact same installation of Vista on my MacBook Pro doesn’t exhibit this issue under 2.0.6.)

After some searching, I found this thread on the VirtualBox forums that described the exact same problem. User withfries2, who poste…