Windows 8?

[dylix]

So I'm getting this error when starting VBOX when I already have a headless vm running.. Any thoughts, ideas?

Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object.
The application will now terminate.
Callee RC: CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE (0x80080005)

Oh yea, oops.
I should mention I get that error when I try to open VirtualBox.exe
VirtualBox VM 4.2.6 r82870 win.amd64 (Dec 19 2012 14:42:41) release log
00:00:00.023101 Log opened 2013-01-30T17:04:17.606682800Z
00:00:00.023105 OS Product: Windows 8
00:00:00.023106 OS Release: 6.2.9200
00:00:00.023107 OS Service Pack:
00:00:00.026822 DMI Product Name: MS-7758
00:00:00.028563 DMI Product Version: 3.0
00:00:00.028566 Host RAM: 16070MB total, 14499MB available
00:00:00.028567 Executable: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxHeadless.exe
00:00:00.028568 Process ID: 5604
00:00:00.028568 Package type: WINDOWS_64BITS_GENERIC

[stefan.becker]

No Infos, no help.

Host Hardware+OS, VBOX version, log file.

All unknown.

[robocat]

Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object.
The application will now terminate.
Callee RC: CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE (0x80080005)

Some VBox commands must be run using the *user* which installed VBox (and *NOT* as Administrator) I hope that is your problem.

See: http://cjhaas.com/blog/2012/11/27/error ... n-windows/

[Hartmut]

Just tested the latest 4.2.8 on a Dell E6510 laptop with Intel HD graphics
Host Win7x64
Guest Win8x64 with guest additions 4.2.8
When 3d accellaration is on the guest OS is repeatedly chrashing when opening Office 2013x64 and then opening a blank workbook.
Without 3D accelaration the guest OS/Office 2013 runs fine.

[NYS_ITS]

Just tested the latest 4.2.8 on a Dell E6510 laptop with Intel HD grapics
Host Win7x64
Guest Win8x64 with gust additions 4.2.8
When 3d accellaration is on the guest OS is repeatedly chrashing when opening Office 2013x64 and then opening a blank workbook.
Without 3D accelaration the guest OS/Office 2013 runs fine.

At first I thought I was crazy, but there definitely seems to be some issues with VirtualBox and Microsoft Office (in my case, 2010).
In Outlook, occasionally my screen flickers black (my secondary display, dual monitors), and minimizes any e-mail i have pulled up.
Similar events also occur within Excel, and IE 10. (non-metro).

Installing guest tools makes it worse!!

[npickles]

Apologies if this has been gone through before but the 5d error seems to be a pretty common problem that I may have found a new working solution to.

I was having a major issue installing Windows 8 in a VirtualBox VM running on a Windows 7 Ultimate host OS.The install process would start, then promptly stop with the dreaded 5d error message indicating that it thought that NX/XD/DEP either isn't available or isn't turned on.

I checked and re-checked all setting and it all looked good, the CPU supports NX/XD/DEP and it was turned on in the BIOS and turned on in the VirtualBox VM System Settings but it still wouldn't install. I checked the CPU capabilities with CoreInfo and SecurAble and they both confirmed that all the required CPU features for Windows 8 were present and correct and that NX/XD/DEP was enabled and available, but Windows 8 still refused to install.

I was doing some digging online and came across a post that mentioned the DEP settings in System Properties, Advanced, Performance, Settings, Data Execution Prevention. This setting has been in Windows since XP I think and the default on my existing Windows 7 host was set to 'Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only'.

I changed this to the 'Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I specify', rebooted the machine as requested and then when I try to install Windows 8 in the VirtualBox VM, voila, it works.

I've been battling this problem for weeks now and finally have a working Windows 8 VM so I can get on with my testing having tried just about all the other suggestions to the 5d error I could find online without success.

I thought this would be worth while sharing.

[frosh]

So, what about W8 installation hanging https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic ... 86#p232486?

[frosh]

Is anybody alive here?
Or the developers just have adopted the ostrich method and VB can be buried.

[Martin]

I don't think anybody will look for old errors in old versions of Vbox. Did you try it again with a current version and an official release of Win8? Do you have a current logfile?

[frosh]

I don't think anybody will look for old errors in old versions of Vbox.

You have too high opinion about VB. What about old bugs in new versions? Nothing has changed since my first post. The latest version has the same problem.
I'm sure that nobody takes care about any log files. I'll certainly leave another log even though it'll be of no avail.

[Martin]

I don't think anybody will look for old errors in old versions of Vbox.

You have too high opinion about VB. What about old bugs in new versions? Nothing has changed since my first post. The latest version has the same problem.
I'm sure that nobody takes care about any log files. I'll certainly leave another log even though it'll be of no avail.

Well, that way it's no wonder nobody wants to waste their precious time to look into your problems..
But a quick look at the log shows that you are low on memory:
Host RAM: 1791MB total, 898MB available
RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000030000000 (805 306 368, 768 MB)
VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000008000000 (134 217 728, 128 MB)
Maybe that's why the guest stops/resets when it tries to switch to video mode which needs more RAM

[Perryg]

@frosh,

32-bit hosts have an overhead when running 64-bit guests

VirtualBox VM 4.2.10 r84104 win.x86 (Mar 15 2013 19:25:22) release log

Over commitment of RAM

00:00:05.486636 Host RAM: 1791MB total, 898MB available
00:00:05.835729 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000030000000 (805 306 368, 768 MB)
00:00:05.836347 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000008000000 (134 217 728, 128 MB)

The main reason why it does not work

00:00:06.682136 NX - No-Execute Page Protection = 0 (1) [guest NX bit is off]

[frosh]

nobody wants to waste their precious time to look into your problems.

So why do you waste your precious time looking into my problems rather than helping others, for example, to close ticket #10700? That's not my problem but VB's one.

32-bit hosts have an overhead when running 64-bit guests

VirtualBox VM 4.2.10 r84104 win.x86 (Mar 15 2013 19:25:22) release log

Firstly, I use 32-bit guest on 32-bit host. Secondly, 64-bit guest does boot in the same conditions.

Over commitment of RAM

00:00:05.486636 Host RAM: 1791MB total, 898MB available
00:00:05.835729 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000030000000 (805 306 368, 768 MB)
00:00:05.836347 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000008000000 (134 217 728, 128 MB)

What about a calculation like that
00:00:01.273620 Host RAM: 1791MB total, 1217MB available
00:00:01.406731 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000024000000 (603 979 776, 576 MB)
00:00:01.406968 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000008000000 (134 217 728, 128 MB)
and 64-bit guest does boot anyway.

The main reason why it does not work

00:00:06.682136 NX - No-Execute Page Protection = 0 (1) [guest NX bit is off]

How come VB ignores own settings. The PAE/NX option is checked in GUI. Who supposed to be blamed?
00:00:02.189836 PAE - Physical Address Extension = 1 (1)
....
00:00:02.189871 NX - No-Execute Page Protection = 0 (1)

[noteirak]

Windows 8 will not work with 576 MB of RAM, you need at least 1 GB, so don't expect anything under it.

Windows 8 system requirements
Required CPU extensions
Are you fully compliant with these? To me, it doesn't look like.

[frosh]

Windows 8 will not work with 576 MB of RAM

LOL! O RLY? Just don't tell anybody.

Required CPU extensions

So what?

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Coreinfo v3.2 - Dump information on system CPU and memory topology
Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
x86 Family 15 Model 107 Stepping 2, AuthenticAMD
HTT             *       Multicore
HYPERVISOR      -       Hypervisor is present
VMX             -       Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization
SVM             *       Supports AMD hardware-assisted virtualization
EM64T           *       Supports 64-bit mode

SMX             -       Supports Intel trusted execution
SKINIT          -       Supports AMD SKINIT

NX              *       Supports no-execute page protection
SMEP            -       Supports Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention
SMAP            -       Supports Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
PAGE1GB         -       Supports 1 GB large pages
PAE             *       Supports > 32-bit physical addresses
PAT             *       Supports Page Attribute Table
PSE             *       Supports 4 MB pages
PSE36           *       Supports > 32-bit address 4 MB pages
PGE             *       Supports global bit in page tables
SS              -       Supports bus snooping for cache operations
VME             *       Supports Virtual-8086 mode
RDWRFSGSBASE    -       Supports direct GS/FS base access

FPU             *       Implements i387 floating point instructions
MMX             *       Supports MMX instruction set
MMXEXT          *       Implements AMD MMX extensions
3DNOW           *       Supports 3DNow! instructions
3DNOWEXT        *       Supports 3DNow! extension instructions
SSE             *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSE2            *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
SSE3            *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
SSSE3           -       Supports Supplemental SIMD Extensions 3
SSE4.1          -       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1
SSE4.2          -       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2

AES             -       Supports AES extensions
AVX             -       Supports AVX intruction extensions
FMA             -       Supports FMA extensions using YMM state
MSR             *       Implements RDMSR/WRMSR instructions
MTRR            *       Supports Memory Type Range Registers
XSAVE           -       Supports XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions
OSXSAVE         -       Supports XSETBV/XGETBV instructions
RDRAND          -       Supports RDRAND instruction
RDSEED          -       Supports RDSEED instruction

CMOV            *       Supports CMOVcc instruction
CLFSH           *       Supports CLFLUSH instruction
CX8             *       Supports compare and exchange 8-byte instructions
CX16            *       Supports CMPXCHG16B instruction
BMI1            -       Supports bit manipulation extensions 1
BMI2            -       Supports bit maniuplation extensions 2
ADX             -       Supports ADCX/ADOX instructions
DCA             -       Supports prefetch from memory-mapped device
F16C            -       Supports half-precision instruction
FXSR            *       Supports FXSAVE/FXSTOR instructions
FFXSR           *       Supports optimized FXSAVE/FSRSTOR instruction
MONITOR         -       Supports MONITOR and MWAIT instructions
MOVBE           -       Supports MOVBE instruction
ERMSB           -       Supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
PCLULDQ         -       Supports PCLMULDQ instruction
POPCNT          -       Supports POPCNT instruction
SEP             *       Supports fast system call instructions
LAHF-SAHF       *       Supports LAHF/SAHF instructions in 64-bit mode
HLE             -       Supports Hardware Lock Elision instructions
RTM             -       Supports Restricted Transactional Memory instructions

DE              *       Supports I/O breakpoints including CR4.DE
DTES64          -       Can write history of 64-bit branch addresses
DS              -       Implements memory-resident debug buffer
DS-CPL          -       Supports Debug Store feature with CPL
PCID            -       Supports PCIDs and settable CR4.PCIDE
INVPCID         -       Supports INVPCID instruction
PDCM            -       Supports Performance Capabilities MSR
RDTSCP          *       Supports RDTSCP instruction
TSC             *       Supports RDTSC instruction
TSC-DEADLINE    -       Local APIC supports one-shot deadline timer
TSC-INVARIANT   -       TSC runs at constant rate
xTPR            -       Supports disabling task priority messages

EIST            -       Supports Enhanced Intel Speedstep
ACPI            -       Implements MSR for power management
TM              -       Implements thermal monitor circuitry
TM2             -       Implements Thermal Monitor 2 control
APIC            *       Implements software-accessible local APIC
x2APIC          -       Supports x2APIC

CNXT-ID         -       L1 data cache mode adaptive or BIOS

MCE             *       Supports Machine Check, INT18 and CR4.MCE
MCA             *       Implements Machine Check Architecture
PBE             -       Supports use of FERR#/PBE# pin

PSN             -       Implements 96-bit processor serial number

PREFETCHW       *       Supports PREFETCHW instruction



Windows 8 system requirements

Don't be ridiculous. 32-bit Windows 8 installation doesn't start. It doesn't boot even in PE. But 64-bit version guest in the same conditions works nice and easy. Capeesh?

P.S. I've just found a bug, btw not only me. You don't want admit to issue with NX enabling? Fine, good luck in further ignoring problems.