Ken's BSODs and Guru Meditations

[Ken Hagan]

I've been seeing rather a lot of BSODs in various VMs since migrating from VMware to VBox 3. I'm not really sure what to say about them, since there's nothing in the VBox log except for the transition from "happy" to "sad". Today, however, I got a guru meditation which suggested I send the log and png to somebody. I presume it wasn't this forum, since there's a 128KiB limit and both files are larger. Still, the log compresses, so I've included that.

The system is a clean installation of Windows XP with SP3 and all updates. Well, nearly all. The guru meditation happened as it attempted to install this month's Patch Tuesday. (As a result, the PNG simply shows that in progress, so I don't suppose you're missing much.)

The host is a Win2K3 server (this may be obvious from the log). I switched from VMware 1.x last month and I've done my best to ensure that VMware is long gone from the system but I suppose it might have left some fossils. VMware was rock solid, so presumably the host hardware is proven.