SBS2003 guest intense hd activity and lock-up?

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scottgus1
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SBS2003 guest intense hd activity and lock-up?

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Anyone had this (in any windows guest)? Vbox 3.1.2 Twice in the last month I have had inexplicable lock-ups in the SBS2003 guest. I notice it when client access to the guest's shared folders goes south, then I log into my host and see the hard drive "light" on the server guest full on red. I try to log into the server on the host or through RDP and get no response. I get no response sending ACPI power button from the machine menu. I have to kill the guest with Task Manager, then reboot the host to get everything running again. Nothing at all shows in the guest's event viewer when it reboots.

I have attached two logs, one (2011-02-05) with no problems, for comparison, and one (2011-02-07) for the session that crashed.
Server2003-2011-02-05-00-06-48.log
log of a good run, no problems
(59.88 KiB) Downloaded 11 times
Server2003-2011-02-07-14-29-18.log
log with crash
(43.57 KiB) Downloaded 12 times
At the end of the 2011-02-07 log, at 58 hours 57 minutes of run time, the PIIX3 controller starts resetting. This doesn't happen in a normal run. This VM was launched at 3:21 AM Saturday from my host-reboot script. 58 hours 57 minutes later is about 2:18 PM Monday, when the problem with accessing the guest's shared folders first appeared.

Any thoughts?
scottgus1
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Re: SBS2003 guest intense hd activity and lock-up?

Post by scottgus1 »

bump. Any ideas why this might happen?
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