Floppy Controller on Win98SE Guest

[ledzilla]

I created a Win98SE guest about three years ago, mostly just to see if I could do it, but I found reason to tinker with it from time to time. Today was the first day I had run it in a long time, after who knows how many updates to VirtualBox have gone by. Anyway, As soon as I log in to the guest, it want to install a floppy disk controller. But as soon as it starts it just freezes. I let it sit for about an hour, but there was no change. Just a constant 11-13 per cent CPU usage from VB. I removed the floppy controller and then it logged in just fine. It idles using no more than 2 percent CPU. As soon as I add a controller in again, it goes back to being frozen. Don't even need to add a floppy drive to duplicate the issue. It just says new hardware is detected, and then gets stuck with the image seen in the attachment.

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Oddly enough when I run it in safe mode, it sees a floppy drive, but strangely enough it only saw one even when two were attached, and it saw two when none were attached (and even with no floppy controller "installed").

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Either way, safe mode had no trouble with the controller, but normal operation wants to install a new controller and freezes while doing so. Not sure what's happening here as I at times have used a handful of floppy images with this guest OS and would like to continue to do so.

[mpack]

I'm afraid this information is not very useful without knowing which VirtualBox version it relates to. And I take it the host is Win7, judging from the caption bars.

Please post a VM log file. With the VM fully shut down, right click it in GUI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (ONLY) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.

[ledzilla]

My mistake. Yes, it's Windows 7, Professional 64-bit SP1, using VirtualBox 4.3.30 r101610. I had to run it again to get a useful log, as I had last run it with the floppy controller removed, but I attached the log after running it for a couple minutes after adding a floppy controller again.