Hi,
Windows 7 x64 host running a Windows 7 x86 guest almost always aborts on me. Sometimes in a few minutes, sometimes in a few hours. It's very frustrating. I attached the logs. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Windows 7 x86 guest keeps aborting! Please help!
Windows 7 x86 guest keeps aborting! Please help!
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Re: Windows 7 x86 guest keeps aborting! Please help!
Also, I can't start it at all if not headless. Logs for that attached.
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Re: Windows 7 x86 guest keeps aborting! Please help!
That is usually a big clue. It normally means that you have a hardening problem (unsigned DLL) in your graphics drivers. Headless launches don't load the graphics drivers, that's why headless works.brock wrote:Also, I can't start it at all if not headless.
So let's look at the hardening log:
The hardening FAQ explains that one.14fc.19fc: supR3HardNtChildWaitFor[1]: Quitting: ExitCode=0xc0000005 (rcNtWait=0x0, rcNt1=0x0, rcNt2=0x103, rcNt3=0x103, 58924740 ms, the end);
Looking for problem DLLs, my eye is caught by "ammemb64.dll", loading from your temp folder. This one has been the cause of hardening problems before. And I see that the last time I had this discussion I also asked and did not get a satisfactory answer to the question: why would legit DLLs load from the temp folder and inject themselves into VirtualBox?
Re: Windows 7 x86 guest keeps aborting! Please help!
Huh. Well, I'm running Actual Multiple Monitors on my host and, strangely enough, that's where ammemb64.dll lives. I have no clue as to why it would need to be loaded. Searching for solutions to DLLs causing hardening problems I've found mentions of simply excluding them. Is that something I can do in the VM settings? I had a quick look at the VM settings dialog and I didn't see any place obvious to do so. Is it a command line thing? A virtualbox settings thing?
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Re: Windows 7 x86 guest keeps aborting! Please help!
You can't exclude a DLL from within VirtualBox. What you found were suggestions for antivirus programs to exclude VirtualBox from their "claws".brock wrote:I've found mentions of simply excluding them
As I mentioned, no such option exists. VirtualBox cannot control what other programs do. It's up to the other programs to behave. The only option for non-behaving problems is uninstallation or update (if possible).brock wrote:I had a quick look at the VM settings dialog and I didn't see any place obvious to do so. Is it a command line thing? A virtualbox settings thing?
Read the article "Diagnosing VirtualBox Hardening Issues" to understand what's actually going on.
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Re: Windows 7 x86 guest keeps aborting! Please help!
Ok. I'll have to run a test with AMM disabled/uninstalled. Thanks for logs inspection and suggestions!
Re: Windows 7 x86 guest keeps aborting! Please help!
Yeah, AMM was the culprit. Not sure what I'm gonna do about it, but at least I know what the cause is now. Thanks for the hints guys!