[Fixed] Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
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[Fixed] Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
Hello,
You may already have discovered and fixed this. Also I'm not sure if it's a regression, but I haven't managed to reproduce the issue not even once with VirtualBox 4.3.29.100535.
I can reproduce it, once in every 10-20 attempts, sometimes it comes more easily, sometimes it's doesn't, using a newly created Windows 7 64 bit VM (default settings, 2GB of RAM) and a Windows 7 64 bit installation ISO. I let the VM boot the ISO up to the first setup window, then I reboot it (Host+R) and repeat. When the issue is triggered, the ISO fails to boot with different BSOD screens each time, that's if the VM doesn't start a Guru Meditation with VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT (I think the guest starts executing from wrong address). I'm attaching a VM log. I also have two full memory dumps of the VM process, one with the Guru Meditation, one with a crash that occurred while I was trying to reproduce the problem, when I hit a key combination, by mistake, to take a snapshot (I think).
I haven't managed to reproduce anything similar, using Windows 8.1 64 bit.
You may already have discovered and fixed this. Also I'm not sure if it's a regression, but I haven't managed to reproduce the issue not even once with VirtualBox 4.3.29.100535.
I can reproduce it, once in every 10-20 attempts, sometimes it comes more easily, sometimes it's doesn't, using a newly created Windows 7 64 bit VM (default settings, 2GB of RAM) and a Windows 7 64 bit installation ISO. I let the VM boot the ISO up to the first setup window, then I reboot it (Host+R) and repeat. When the issue is triggered, the ISO fails to boot with different BSOD screens each time, that's if the VM doesn't start a Guru Meditation with VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT (I think the guest starts executing from wrong address). I'm attaching a VM log. I also have two full memory dumps of the VM process, one with the Guru Meditation, one with a crash that occurred while I was trying to reproduce the problem, when I hit a key combination, by mistake, to take a snapshot (I think).
I haven't managed to reproduce anything similar, using Windows 8.1 64 bit.
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption (beta4,rc1)
I can reproduce the issue with RC1.
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption (beta4,rc1)
Any idea if this happens when you disable Hyper-V for the VM? (use paravirt. provider as "none" in the GUI Acceleration tab)
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption (beta4,rc1)
I've tried to reproduce the problem with the parav. provider set to 'None' (from 'Default'), so far it hasn't occurred.
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption (beta4,rc1)
Too bad: I tried to reproduce this with a Windows 7 Enterprise DVD but was not successful. Hyper-V set as PV and rebooted the guest about 50 times.
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption (beta4,rc1)
I first observed the issue after a few fresh installs, when sometimes the guest OS would hang (not completely) or VirtualBox would enter "guru meditation", right before it shows you the desktop, after completing the last setup steps (setting the user name, the PC name, the system date, the Windows Update, etc).
Would a guest memory dump be of use? Or the VirtualBox full process dump, while it's in guru meditation?
Would a guest memory dump be of use? Or the VirtualBox full process dump, while it's in guru meditation?
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
I can reproduce this with RC2. If it helps, I can build the dbgopt OSE build and enable some logging.
I have the full process dump and the log for a RC2 VM session that entered guru meditation. In case you're interested...
I have the full process dump and the log for a RC2 VM session that entered guru meditation. In case you're interested...
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
If you could give us the log for HM that would be useful. Namely, VBOX_WITH_R0_LOGGING=1 in LocalConfig.kmk or build debug VirtualBox using "kmk VBOX_WITH_R0_LOGGING=1".
Then, export or set VBOX_LOG="+hm.e.l4" before starting the VM.
The log will be pretty big as the VM runs longer, so if it takes too long to reproduce on one run, simply poweroff the VM and re-try to keep the log file smaller.
Ideally providing the log when the GURU happens would be more useful than a guest BSOD.
Then, export or set VBOX_LOG="+hm.e.l4" before starting the VM.
The log will be pretty big as the VM runs longer, so if it takes too long to reproduce on one run, simply poweroff the VM and re-try to keep the log file smaller.
Ideally providing the log when the GURU happens would be more useful than a guest BSOD.
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
I'm able to log to a separate log, not the VM log. How do I redirect it?
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
Here are the logs, but separate:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1LFjo ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1LFjo ... sp=sharing
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
No need to redirect it, separate is fine and how it works.mhanor wrote:I'm able to log to a separate log, not the VM log. How do I redirect it?
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
Thanks for the log, I had a look. If your problem is very easily reproducible, could you try disabling large pages for the VM and trying?
And you can verify that it's really off in VBox.log after starting the VM in the line:
It should show 0 there instead of 1.
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VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --largepages off
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EnableLargePages <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
I'm not able to reproduce it. Now I know why I wasn't able to reproduce it on my Ubuntu 14.04 x64 host OS. I have just enabled large pages (disabled by default, it seems, for this host) and now I'm able to reproduce it under my Ubuntu host OS, using the RC2 build.
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
Thanks for testing, we should have a test build available soon.
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Re: Windows 7 64 bit guest memory corruption
Here is a Windows test build which contains changes which hopefully fix your problem. Could you verify? Thank you!