Windows clients randomly shutdown/reboot

[fl-mitchells]

I recently upgraded to Virtualbox 4.0.2 from 3.something and am running the host on Fedora 14. I imported a Win XPsr3 client from my old vbox on Fedora 12. That client suffers from random reboots. I say random-- there is a pattern in that it occurs only after a short period of inactivity. Could be a minute or two, could be 10, but sooner or later it will reboot itself if left alone. I also created a new XP client in vbox 4.0.2 onto which I installed WinXPsr3, then a Win7 upgrade. This client shuts down randomly... well random in the same sense as the first. So... XP reboots and 7 shuts down, each without provocation. Any ideas why this may be happening?

*edit--- sorry forgot to mention my host OS is 64bit, both guests are 32bit if this makes any difference.

[Perryg]

Turn off screen savers and power management features in the guest.
Fix for this is supposed to be included in the next maintenance release.

[Techno.Scavenger]

I was noticing this lately but was not paying much attention until I lost so of my work. I will try the work-around.

[Techno.Scavenger]

Anyone knows of the ticket number for this?

[rorx]

Seeing this issue running 4.0.2r69518 on Ubuntu 10.10 n l under 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux with guest Windows 7. Seeing shutdowns not reboots though, VBox logs don't show alot:

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01:17:08.108 Entering S5 power state (power down)
01:17:08.108 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'POWERING_OFF'.
01:17:08.108 ****************** Guest state at power off ******************
01:17:08.108 Guest CPUM (VCPU 0) state: se
01:17:08.108 eax=00000001 ebx=8527a690 ecx=857e2008 edx=82d59ae0 esi=00000003 edi=00000011
01:17:08.108 eip=82c95ea7 esp=82d596b4 ebp=82d59a70 iopl=0      rf nv up di pl zr na pe nc
01:17:08.108 cs={0008 base=0000000000000000 limit=ffffffff flags=0000c09a} dr0=00000000 dr1=00000000
01:17:08.108 ds={0023 base=0000000000000000 limit=ffffffff flags=0000c0f3} dr2=00000000 dr3=00000000
01:17:08.108 es={0023 base=0000000000000000 limit=ffffffff flags=0000c0f3} dr4=00000000 dr5=00000000
01:17:08.108 fs={0030 base=0000000082d5cc00 limit=00003748 flags=00004093} dr6=ffff4ff0 dr7=00000000
01:17:08.108 gs={0000 base=0000000000000000 limit=00000000 flags=00000000} cr0=e001003b cr2=80b9503f
01:17:08.108 ss={0010 base=0000000000000000 limit=ffffffff flags=0000c093} cr3=00185000 cr4=00000699
01:17:08.108 gdtr=0000000080b95000:03ff  idtr=0000000080b95400:07ff  eflags=00010002
01:17:08.108 ldtr={0000 base=00000000 limit=00000000 flags=00000082}
01:17:08.108 tr  ={0028 base=801c7000 limit=000020ab flags=0000008b}
01:17:08.108 SysEnter={cs=0000 eip=00000000 esp=00000000}
01:17:08.108 FCW=027f FSW=0020 FTW=0000 FOP=011c MXCSR=00001f80 MXCSR_MASK=0000ffff
01:17:08.108 FPUIP=07a98f3f CS=001b Rsvrd1=0000  FPUDP=0aa3fa90 DS=0023 Rsvrd2=0000
01:17:08.108 ST(0)=FPR0={0000'00000000'00000000} t0 +0.0000000000000000000000 ^ 0
01:17:08.108 ST(1)=FPR1={0000'00000000'00000000} t0 +0.0000000000000000000000 ^ 0
01:17:08.108 ST(2)=FPR2={0000'00000000'00000000} t0 +0.0000000000000000000000 ^ 0
01:17:08.108 ST(3)=FPR3={0000'00000000'00000000} t0 +0.0000000000000000000000 ^ 0
01:17:08.108 ST(4)=FPR4={0000'00000000'00000000} t0 +0.0000000000000000000000 ^ 0
01:17:08.108 ST(5)=FPR5={0000'00000000'00000000} t0 +0.0000000000000000000000 ^ 0
01:17:08.108 ST(6)=FPR6={0000'00000000'00000000} t0 +0.0000000000000000000000 ^ 0
01:17:08.108 ST(7)=FPR7={0000'00000000'00000000} t0 +0.0000000000000000000000 ^ 0
01:17:08.108 XMM0 =00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000  XMM1 =00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000
01:17:08.108 XMM2 =00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000  XMM3 =00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000
01:17:08.108 XMM4 =00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000  XMM5 =00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000
01:17:08.108 XMM6 =00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000  XMM7 =00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000
01:17:08.108 XMM8 =00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000  XMM9 =00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000
01:17:08.108 XMM10=00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000  XMM11=00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000
01:17:08.108 XMM12=00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000  XMM13=00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000
01:17:08.108 XMM14=00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000  XMM15=00000000'00000000'00000000'00000000
01:17:08.108 EFER         =0000000000000000
01:17:08.108 PAT          =0007010600070106
01:17:08.108 STAR         =0000000000000000
01:17:08.108 CSTAR        =0000000000000000
01:17:08.108 LSTAR        =0000000000000000
01:17:08.108 SFMASK       =0000000000000000
01:17:08.108 KERNELGSBASE =0000000000000000
01:17:08.108 ***
01:17:08.108 Guest paging mode:  32-bit, changed 214962 times, A20 enabled
01:17:08.108 Shadow paging mode: PAE
01:17:08.108 Host paging mode:   AMD64+G+NX
01:17:08.108 ***
01:17:08.108 Active Timers (pVM=00007f9de0b00000)
01:17:08.108 pTimerR3         offNext  offPrev  offSched Clock               Time             Expire HzHint State                     Description
01:17:08.108 00007f9dde37c2b0 0000aa30 00000000 00000000 Real           829891420          829891423      0 2-ACTIVE                  VGA Refresh Timer
01:17:08.108 00007f9dde386ce0 ffffff80 ffff55d0 00000000 Real           829891420          829891437      0 2-ACTIVE                  EMT Yielder
01:17:08.108 00007f9dde386c60 00000000 00000080 00000000 Real           829891420          829891664      0 2-ACTIVE                  CPU Load Timer
01:17:08.108 00007f9dde381510 00000000 00000000 00000000 Virt       4625322034886      4625320590404      0 2-ACTIVE                  Audio timer
01:17:08.108 00007f9dde373740 000005a0 00000000 00000000 VrSy       4625316929025      4625316929025    996 2-ACTIVE                  i8254 Programmable Interval Timer
01:17:08.108 00007f9dde373ce0 000120f0 fffffa60 00000000 VrSy       4625316929025      4625990000000      0 2-ACTIVE                  MC146818 RTC/CMOS - Second
01:17:08.108 00007f9dde385dd0 00000000 fffedf10 00000000 VrSy       4625316929025      4799456126404      0 2-ACTIVE                  ACPI Timer
01:17:08.108 ***
01:17:08.108 Shadow GDT (GCAddr=91dbd000):
01:17:08.108 0008 - 0000ffff 00cfbb00 - base=00000000 limit=ffffffff dpl=1 CodeER Accessed Present Page 32-bit
01:17:08.108 0010 - 0000ffff 00cfb300 - base=00000000 limit=ffffffff dpl=1 DataRW Accessed Present Page 32-bit
01:17:08.108 0018 - 0000ffff 00cffb00 - base=00000000 limit=ffffffff dpl=3 CodeER Accessed Present Page 32-bit
01:17:08.108 0020 - 0000ffff 00cff300 - base=00000000 limit=ffffffff dpl=3 DataRW Accessed Present Page 32-bit
01:17:08.108 0030 - cc003748 8240b3d5 - base=82d5cc00 limit=00003748 dpl=1 DataRW Accessed Present 32-bit
01:17:08.108 0038 - 00000fff 0040f300 - base=00000000 limit=00000fff dpl=3 DataRW Accessed Present 32-bit
01:17:08.108 0040 - 0400ffff 0000f300 - base=00000400 limit=0000ffff dpl=3 DataRW Accessed Present 16-bit
01:17:08.108 0070 - 500003ff 8000b3b9 - base=80b95000 limit=000003ff dpl=1 DataRW Accessed Present 16-bit
01:17:08.108 00e8 - 0000ffff 0000b300 - base=00000000 limit=0000ffff dpl=1 DataRW Accessed Present 16-bit
01:17:08.108 00f0 - ad3003b2 8200b9c6 - base=82c6ad30 limit=000003b2 dpl=1 CodeEO Accessed Present 16-bit
01:17:08.108 00f8 - 0000ffff 0000b300 - base=00000000 limit=0000ffff dpl=1 DataRW Accessed Present 16-bit
01:17:08.108 ffd8 - 80d80087 91008900 - base=910080d8 limit=00000087 dpl=0 TSS32Avail Present 16-bit  HyperTSSTrap08
01:17:08.108 ffe0 - 80500087 91008b00 - base=91008050 limit=00000087 dpl=0 TSS32Busy Present 16-bit  HyperTSS
01:17:08.108 ffe8 - 0000ffff 00af9b00 - base=00000000 limit=ffffffff dpl=0 CodeER Accessed Present Page 16-bit  HyperCS64
01:17:08.108 fff0 - 0000ffff 00cf9300 - base=00000000 limit=ffffffff dpl=0 DataRW Accessed Present Page 32-bit  HyperDS
01:17:08.108 fff8 - 0000ffff 00cf9b00 - base=00000000 limit=ffffffff dpl=0 CodeER Accessed Present Page 32-bit  HyperCS
01:17:08.108 ***
01:17:08.108 ************** End of Guest state at power off ***************
01:17:08.108 Changing the VM state from 'POWERING_OFF' to 'OFF'.

[rorx]

Read something about the client additions for this version causing the guest (win7 32bit in this case) to set power scheme to balanced. Could not even get into the control panel on the guest OS so went for the following:

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C:\Users\rorx>powercfg -list

Existing Power Schemes (* Active)
-----------------------------------
Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e  (Balanced) *
Power Scheme GUID: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c  (High performance)
Power Scheme GUID: a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a  (Power saver)

C:\Users\rorx>powercfg -setactive "8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c"

C:\Users\rorx>powercfg -list

Existing Power Schemes (* Active)
-----------------------------------
Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e  (Balanced)
Power Scheme GUID: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c  (High performance) *
Power Scheme GUID: a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a  (Power saver)

C:\Users\rorx>

It's not shutdown yet, three days and counting!