BSOD on shutting down / saving state (multiple VM's running)

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virtualguy
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BSOD on shutting down / saving state (multiple VM's running)

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This bug is fairly old but still exists in the 4.2RC versions, so I'm posting it here since it is quite severe:

Random IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, BAD_POOL_HEADER & MEMORY_MANAGEMENT BSOD's occur on Win hosts when shutting down a VM or saving its state, while at least one other machine is running.

Tested on both XPsp3(32bit) and 7sp1(32bit) on two different computers with all 4.1 and 4.2 versions.

To reproduce: Start 2 VMS running only are bare live linux. Let one running, while saving the state / resume the other. Repeat. It might take upto 10 tries until host BSOD occurs.

Bug Report with dumps and logs: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10867
Relating? Bug Report: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10276
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Post by DNS »

My experience is identical to this as well for the filed bug, all along I thought it was a unique anomaly not reproducible by anyone.
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10736
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Re: BSOD on shutting down / saving state (multiple VM's runn

Post by michaln »

The semi-random crash on 32-bit Windows hosts (and some others) should be now fixed and the tickets were updated.
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THANK YOU! Special thanks to the devs for finding time to fix it in the middle of a major release. You guys are awesome :)
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DNS wrote:THANK YOU! Special thanks to the devs for finding time to fix it in the middle of a major release. You guys are awesome :)
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Re: BSOD on shutting down / saving state (multiple VM's runn

Post by frank »

The fix is also included in VirtualBox 4.2.0 RC4. Thanks for all the reports which helped localizing the actual bug.
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