bsd when installing server 2008 & crashes installing program

[trichards]

Hey Guys looking for some advice.

I've got the the latest version of VB and im trying to install server 2008 64 bit from a factory cd and it will intall then reboot the inpage error blue screen. Then once I've gotten the OS to install (many attempts getting same error) when I go to make the box a domain or install exchange box crashes and will not intstall. I did have the previous version of VB, but I know have 4.2.2 and having the same problem. I've also looked in the bios and vt-x is checked and i've upgraded the bios to the latest version and still having the same problems. I'm running this on a inspiron i5 with WIN 7 64 bit. Any advice on what to tweak would be great.

Thanks for the help

[mpack]

Please post the VM log file of a failed session, i.e. one showing the guest BSOD. Post the log as a .zip attachment. The VM log file is called "VBox.log" and can be found in the "Logs" subfolder of the VM folder.

[trichards]

Ok here is a log file of a bsod install error thanks you so much for your help.

Trevor

[trichards]

mpack could you take a look at the log please

Thanks

[mpack]

The log is incomplete - you evidently did not shut down this VM after the guest error occurred?

Anyway the most striking feature is a bunch of "AsynchCompletion" lines like this :-

00:23:06.137607 AsyncCompletion: Task 0x0000002bec68c0 completed after 12 seconds
00:23:06.137624 AsyncCompletion: Task 0x0000002bec6880 completed after 12 seconds
00:23:06.137641 AsyncCompletion: Task 0x0000002bec6840 completed after 12 seconds
00:23:06.137658 AsyncCompletion: Task 0x0000002bec6800 completed after 12 seconds
00:23:06.137675 AsyncCompletion: Task 0x0000002bec67c0 completed after 12 seconds
00:23:06.137693 AsyncCompletion: Task 0x0000002bec6780 completed after 12 seconds
00:23:06.137710 AsyncCompletion: Task 0x0000002bec6740 completed after 12 seconds
00:23:06.137727 AsyncCompletion: Task 0x0000002bec6700 completed after 12 seconds
00:23:06.137743 AsyncCompletion: Task 0x0000002bec66c0 completed after 12 seconds
00:23:06.137760 AsyncCompletion: Task 0x0000002bec6680 completed after 12 seconds

I would have a look a the VM settings for your boot drive (Storage section), and whatever value it now has for "Use host I/O cache", set it the other way.

Also, 512MB seems a tad tight for a 2008 server edition of Windows. I would not expect smooth running if you do something like that.

ps. If it reoccurs, please provide a picture of the BSOD screen.

[trichards]

Thanks for looking at the logs I will change the storage setting and bump up the memory.