2 WinXP Guests on a HP ProLiant Linux Cluster - HDD Crashs

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Hobbystern
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Joined: 21. Sep 2010, 06:17
Primary OS: MS Windows other
VBox Version: OSE Debian
Guest OSses: Windows XP

2 WinXP Guests on a HP ProLiant Linux Cluster - HDD Crashs

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Good Morning Everyone,

i hope i could get some new inspiration - i am facing a curios problem.

Host : Debian ProLiant DL 385 AMD Server, 11GB RAM, SCSI RAID 1, Clustered with drbd, ocfs2 - the vm-disks lying on ocfs (!)
Guest : Easiest way build - a win xp system, available 3,5gb of ram, swap space only 2 gb, 2 growing partitions (boot and programs)

Virtualbox from Debian Backports - 4.0.6 with GuestAdditions 4.0.6 - all is administrated HEADLESS.

The XP Clients are freezing from time to time, i searched for the reason and it seems like it is "under heavy io circumstances" the guest freezes and quit working, the guest must be manually poweroff and up again - most times there is data-loss.

Logs (english and if German avail in "[]" ):
Windows (immediately before freeze) :

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1. <ERROR> The device isnt yet ready for access [Das Gerät \Device\Harddisk1\D ist für den Zugriff noch nicht bereit.]
2. <WARN>  Data loss while writing [{Datenverlust beim Schreiben} Nicht alle Daten für Datei "" wurden gespeichert. Die Daten gingen verloren. [...]]
Virtualbox (SystemInfo)

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00:00:00.025 VirtualBox 4.0.6 r71344 linux.amd64 (Apr 21 2011 11:50:04) release log
00:00:00.025 Log opened 2011-06-04T06:29:56.204154000Z 
00:00:00.025 OS Product: Linux
00:00:00.025 OS Release: 2.6.32-5-amd64
00:00:00.025 OS Version: #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 21:35:22 UTC 2011   
00:00:00.025 DMI Product Name: ProLiant DL385 G1              
00:00:00.025 DMI Product Version:
00:00:00.026 Host RAM: 10870MB RAM, available: 9654MB
00:00:00.026 Executable: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless
00:00:00.026 Process ID: 8496              
00:00:00.026 Package type: LINUX_64BITS_DEBIAN_6_0             
00:00:00.236 VRDP: TCP server listening on port 3389.          
00:00:00.237 SUP: Opened VMMR0.r0 (/usr/lib/virtualbox/VMMR0.r0) at 0xffffffffa06e7a20.
00:00:00.267 File system of '/srv/vms/WinXP' (snapshots) is unknown
00:00:00.267 File system of '/srv/vms/WinXP/WinXP-Boot.vdi' is unknown
00:00:00.273 File system of '/srv/vms/WinXP/WinXP-SQL-VEC.vdi' is unknown
00:00:00.299 VBoxSharedClipboard mode: Bidirectional     
VBoxLogs dont say something specific

rsync is running in the night, the vm freezes at 3 am - rsync runs at 5 am

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[837523.286397] rsync: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x4020
[837523.286475] Pid: 2038, comm: rsync Tainted: G      D    2.6.32-5-amd64 #1
[837523.286552] Call Trace:
and after all - dmesg tells me it is switiching between promiscous mode (enter/left) - i have a BRIDGED network.

vbox-conf

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Memory size:     5000MB
Page Fusion:     off
VRAM size:       32MB
HPET:            off
Chipset:         piix3
Firmware:        BIOS
Number of CPUs:  1
Synthetic Cpu:   off
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode:  message and menu
Boot Device (1): DVD
Boot Device (2): HardDisk
Boot Device (3): Not Assigned
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI:            on
IOAPIC:          on
PAE:             off
Time offset:     0 ms
RTC:             local time
Hardw. virt.ext: off
Hardw. virt.ext exclusive: on
Nested Paging:   off
Large Pages:     off
VT-x VPID:       off
State:           running (since 2011-06-04T07:18:01.227000000)
Monitor count:   1
3D Acceleration: off
2D Video Acceleration: on
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 6689
Teleporter Address: 
Teleporter Password: 18255
Storage Controller Name (0):            IDE
Storage Controller Type (0):            PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0):  2
Storage Controller Port Count (0):      2
Storage Controller Bootable (0):        on
Storage Controller Name (1):            SATA
Storage Controller Type (1):            IntelAhci
Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (1):  30
Storage Controller Port Count (1):      30
Storage Controller Bootable (1):        on
I would be very happy if someone could give me some light out here in the dark ;)

Got someone a good Idea?
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