A critical error has occurred - WinXP !!! HELP !!!

cekuhnen · Post by **cekuhnen** » 21. Jan 2009, 22:42

Hi

while working with Vbox and XP SP3 Virtualbox just stoped working and said that a critical error has occurred.

Now VBox does not work anymore.

Here is the log file and png image:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/239525/VBox.log

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/239525/VBox.png

Post by **tkwm** » 22. Jan 2009, 03:33

I just read over your log. There are other people here in the forum that will understand more of it than I, but the following lines
----------------------------------------------------------
00:03:52.138 PGMDynMapHCPage: set is full!
00:03:52.138 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:03:52.138 !!
00:03:52.138 !! Guru Meditation -2701 (VERR_VMM_RING0_ASSERTION)
00:03:52.138 !!
00:03:52.138 PGMDynMapHCPage: set is full!
---------------------------------------------------------
lead me to the assumption that your virtual disc is full.

You can test this without destroying anything by booting your vm from a linux-live-cd like knoppix or from a windows-live-cd like Bart-PE or Vista-PE, or from the image of such a cd. Then look at your virtual hd. If there only a few megabytes are left, this will be the problem, you then will have to delete some files from one of the Temp-folders to get sufficent free space again.
I hope this helps ...

cekuhnen · Post by **cekuhnen** » 22. Jan 2009, 20:42

The disk is filled with 4.34 GB of information.

It is a 10 GB disk file, 5.30 GB are used and 4.68 GB are free.
That is plenty.

So I do not know what I could clean up or change?

Sometimes Windows told me that the virtual memory is low
and that it is adjusting it.

Post by **tkwm** » 22. Jan 2009, 21:55

No. 4.68GB is enough. So my guess was wrong and that critical error must have other reasons.
But you should obtain a bart-pe or vista-pe, because it includes several tools that may allow to repair your installation.

cekuhnen · Post by **cekuhnen** » 22. Jan 2009, 22:28

Hey

I was able to boot into Win with the safe mode. So something triggers the crash when I boot in a normal mode.

I changed the memory mapping to the system deciding it instead of having a fixed value.

This seems to have changed it. It does not crash anymore.

Post by **tkwm** » 22. Jan 2009, 23:30

The next thing you should do is to copy your working virtual disc. Or use the finders duplicate-function. And it is not wrong to keep the copy at a save place. TimeMachine does that for you.
"Data that are not backuped are lost data" - old adminsaying

Post by **sandervl** » 23. Jan 2009, 11:27

This was fixed in 2.1.2.