XP Guest Blue Screen of Death

Leonardo · Post by **Leonardo** » 8. Jan 2009, 06:17

Hello, sorry because I do not speak English well.
I have an HD with two partitions (Ubuntu 8.04, WindowsXP), and tried to get Windows XP (guest) running under the virtual machine (on Ubuntu 8.04 host). I followed the procedures manual forum. When running virtual machine, Windows starts to load (there is a welcome progress bar) and suddenly a blue screen with no error description appears. It only said that there was a problem and had to shut down Windows.
Someone can help me with some clues?
Thank you very much for your time.
Leonardo

verbatone · Post by **verbatone** » 8. Jan 2009, 06:45

It may be because you have two different machine ID's. Look in the XML file for the VM and see if the machine ID is different than the actual machine ID. I'm sure it will be. You'll probably have to change the XML file so that the machine ID matches the actual machine ID. Windows doesn't like you moving versions of XP around, but this is a workaround.

Leonardo · Post by **Leonardo** » 8. Jan 2009, 07:14

XP.xml first tag:

<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" version="1.5-linux">
<Machine uuid="{45e67eed-13f7-49e8-b98a-364c122dbfbc}" name="XP" OSType="WindowsXP" lastStateChange="2009-01-08T05:01:33Z">

And ...
leo@localhost:~$ sudo dmidecode -t1
# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.3 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: ECS
Product Name: M810DLU
Version: 1.0
Serial Number: 00000000
UUID: Not Settable
Wake-up Type: Modem Ring

Do you say that both uuid should be equal? Sorry, I'm just learning about this.

Post by **TerryE** » 8. Jan 2009, 16:55

What IDE controller are you using. XP doesn't support the PIIX4 controller.

Leonardo · Post by **Leonardo** » 8. Jan 2009, 17:56

PIIX3 now, but still does not work. A blue screen and reboot.
What devices must be activated for Windows to run properly? For example, I have not yet enabled usb.
What i did was give whole disk access to the virtual machine, and choose the Grub option to boot Windows.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 8. Jan 2009, 21:38

TerryE wrote:What IDE controller are you using. XP doesn't support the PIIX4 controller.

Ahum, XP does support the PIIX4 controller. I have my VMs running on that one. It's the change when it's first installed on PIIX3 that causes problems. Previous versions of Windows don't support PIIX4.

Leonardo:
You followed the howto from the sticky in the Windows Guests forum? If so, did you bother to create a new hardware profile that does not have your Host hardware enabled? That can cause these sudden BSODs, as the hardware changes are too big for XP to handle.