Windows 10 Anniversary Update Broke VirtualBox?

[jigawot]

This morning my computer notified me that there was an update. I installed build 1607 (the "anniversary update") and now VirtualBox doesn't seem to be working. I get the following error:

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Does this have to do with the new requirement that all kernel mode drivers must be digitally signed by Microsoft?

Everything was working just fine a few hours ago (I use VirtualBox on a daily basis for work), but now I can't seem to get anything to start.

Any suggestions?

[jigawot]

Okay, I feel a little foolish. A simple uninstall-reinstall seems to have done the trick. I initially thought this unnecessary as I had just upgraded from 5.0 to 5.1 (VirtualBox) and thought a re-install redundant.

Hopefully this may help someone else.

[BillG]

I am surprised to here that you had problems. On this machine, I uninstalled VirtualBox before upgrading, just in case. On my backup machine, I simply ran the upgrade as it stood, even with machines in saved states, just to see what would happen. It was a bit disappointing really - everything just worked!

[Mirlfit]

Well, I got the new 5.1 update, and got the "windows anniversary update", and now when i try to open ANY virtual machine, it gets me a Blue Screen of Death. Either existing machines or even if I create new ones. As anyone has seen anything like it?

[Niko Maliakkas]

I have the same problem wih anniversary update. I get BSOD when starting any virtual machine (old/new). I uninstalled and reistalled, problem continues. I even started a DOS vm, with the same blue screen (no time to scan the QR provided...)

[lvallauri]

same here. if feedbacks /data needed please asks.

[oversten]

In my case I got BSOD no matter if I installed 5.1 or reverted back to 5.0.26 that I used before installing the anniversary update for win 10.

Both my machines behaved the same way after Win 10 update.

I ended up uninstalling the HyperV feature on both machines and reinstalled virtualbox.

Everything now works.

I'm not sure if I had HyperV uninstalled before and that Win 10 update reinstalled it or if there just was a new issue with HyperV and virtualbox in the update.
Anyway, wanted to give my input to this.

[Niko Maliakkas]

After several tries I managed to fix it:

1. I was using version 5.0 and virtualbox did not suggest to upgrade to 5.1 (??), so I installed 5.1.2
2. I disabled Hyper-V from Windows features , after restart virtualbox starts the virtual machines... also seems faster..!

Hope this helps

[socratis]

I ended up uninstalling the HyperV feature on both machines and reinstalled virtualbox.

I disabled Hyper-V from Windows features , after restart virtualbox starts

Wait a minute... Are you both saying that instead of VirtualBox complaining about Hyper-V, it now crashes? With a BSOD? Even with a DOS VM? What?????

PS. Well, technically, DOS doesn't have a BSOD, but hey, the B could stand for Black instead of Blue

[mpack]

Presumbly the "BSOD" of concern would be a crash of the host, not of the guest, is that what's being discussed here? I'm confused by the fact that "blue" is specifically mentioned, but Win10 has a black BSOD, and DOS doesn't have anything.

p.s. Yes, DOS doesn't have a BSOD, regardless of the color. There is no background executive that takes over when the foreground crashes - the entire system is one process. Plus, it's not a protected OS, so you don't get those global exceptions anyway.

[Rob68]

Wait a minute... Are you both saying that instead of VirtualBox complaining about Hyper-V, it now crashes? With a BSOD?

Yes, I'm seeing this same exact thing.

I've been using VirtualBox 5.0.16 with a Windows XP VM. Yesterday I got the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Today when I tried to start my VM, nothing happened. There was no visual sign of Virtual Box starting up. I was using a shortcut like this to start the VM: "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm "XP BCB5 VM"

My next step was to try updating to the latest Virtual Box. I installed Virtual Box 5.1.2.
Now I am able to launch Virtual Box Manager, however when I try to start the VM I get the Blue Screen of Death and my Windows 10 host computer reboots.

I saw other posts about disabling Hyper-V in Windows Features, however when I do that, my computer reboots/restarts and says: Could not complete the features, undoing changes.
In the past I was able to use Virtual Box with Hyper-V enabled, it was just a bit slower that way.

Please advise if there are any logs I could post or additional steps to try.

[Rob68]

I was able to get Virtual Box and my VM working again.

One other thing I didn’t mention before... I'm running 2 boot configurations, and I had one with Hyper-V disabled according to the steps on this site:
Unable to post link.... Scott Hanselman's blog:
Switch easily between VirtualBox and Hyper-V with a BCDEdit boot Entry in Windows 8.1

However, after the anniversary update, I noticed that both boot configurations were named “Windows 10”. Also, when running bcdedit, I noticed that both boot configurations had the setting
hypervisorlaunchtype Auto

So, I went back to bcdedit and did the following:

bcdedit /set {current} description “No Hyper-V”
and
bcdedit /set {current} hypervisorlaunchtype off

Now, I'm able to select the No Hyper-V boot configuration and Virtual Box is working again.

[falcon291]

Hi,

Before the anniversary update Virtualbox was working fine.

After the update, I started to get BSOD (Blue screen of death) after starting any virtual machine. And then I spend hours trying to solve it. However it was futile.

Until I read disabling Hyper-V here.

I read it, remove it from Windows services. And now I am able to use my virtual PCs. Thanks.

By the way after having the problem, I copied my Virtual PCs to my laptop and started there after installing VirtualBox without any problem, I will tomorrow check whether Hyper-V is also enabled there.

This BSOD is really strange for me, because with this PC, that I run Windows 8, 8.1 and later 10, I never saw any BSOD before. I don't know who will solve the problem Oracle or Microsoft. But we have a problem here.

[themrx]

My virtualbox is also broken after win 10 anniversary upgrade, I was not able to start Virtualbox anymore - nothing happened, no error message etc. I think I had version 5.0.x something before. After upgrading Virtualbox to 5.1.2 I'm able to start Virtualbox, but I still can't start virtual machines.

Error which I get:
VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX).

Result Code:
E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component:
ConsoleWrap
Interface:
IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}

Note that VT-x is enabled in BIOS, hyper-v is also disabled (hyper-v "module" is disabled in features + bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off). I also tried uninstalling / reinstalling Virtualbox (even different versions), but the issue is still there.

Interesting is that if I change CPU/ memory parameter of any virtual machine and then starting the machine - system just crashes (BSOD - SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION (memory corruption).

Note that before win upgrade everything was working fine. I was able to start 64bit virtual machines.

Any ideas?

[Natural]

Same problem after Windows 10 force updated itself.

You people who have got things working again, can you post a tutorial of the steps we need to take, please?