Visual Studio 2008 Debug - Fatal Execution Engine Error

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bw2010
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Primary OS: MS Windows 7
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Visual Studio 2008 Debug - Fatal Execution Engine Error

Post by bw2010 »

Hi All,

Using Visual Studio 2008 with 3.1.6 and 3.1.8 I have found the following issue (if I downgrade to 3.1.4 everything works fine):

1) Run Visual Studio 2008
2) Open a windows forms project *
3) Set a breakpoint and debug the project (ie press F5)
4) Visual Studio compiles the project and attempts to debug, however the debugger never starts.

Looking in the Visual Studio output window, the following is logged:
The program '[1080] Sample.vshost.exe: Managed' has exited with code -1073740940 (0xc0000374)

Also, in the application event log, the following is logged:
Event ID: 1023
Event Source: .NET Runtime
Event Data: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.4927 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (000007FEF9CDFA42) (80131506)

There is no information logged in the virtualbox machine log.

* Not all projects exhibit this issue, I have not managed to narrow down the mitigating circumstances

As I mentioned above, If I downgrade to 3.1.4, the issue goes away.

Any tips on how to troubleshoot this any further, does virtualbox have a verbose logging mode?

Should I file a bug report?

Thanks in advance.

showvminfo output below:

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Sun VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.1.8
(C) 2005-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

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Floppy Controller (0, 0): Empty
NIC 1:           MAC: 080027CE138D, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'Intel(R) 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps
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<none>

Available remote USB devices:

<none>

Currently Attached USB Devices:

<none>

Shared folders:  <none>

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Guest:

Statistics update:                   disabled
bw2010
Posts: 3
Joined: 12. May 2010, 04:20
Primary OS: MS Windows 7
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Re: Visual Studio 2008 Debug - Fatal Execution Engine Error

Post by bw2010 »

bump...

Still happens in 3.2.0

Any ideas?
bw2010
Posts: 3
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Re: Visual Studio 2008 Debug - Fatal Execution Engine Error

Post by bw2010 »

Just noticed I can workaround the issue by changing the platform target (visual studio project properties) from Any CPU to x86.

So I guess its an incompatibility between Virtualbox and .NET x64.

If I set the platform target to x64, the problem returns.

Good thing my application doesn't require 64bit support....
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