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Application error when running VirtualBox inside a Win8.1 VM

Posted: 20. Nov 2015, 19:03
by mskov
Hi,

when running VirtualBox inside of a Win8.1 x86 VM (which itself is running in another VirtualBox instance on a Win7x64 host) I am sometimes getting an unhandled "Application error". In the test today I created a test 32-bit VM (without a hard drive attached). I started the VM and then after a few seconds powered it off. The error occurs not always, but once every 5-10 attempts.

The screenshot and the logs are attached.

Thnx!

Re: Application error when running VirtualBox inside a Win8.

Posted: 23. Nov 2015, 13:17
by socratis
Nested virtualization is not supported.

Re: Application error when running VirtualBox inside a Win8.

Posted: 23. Nov 2015, 13:24
by mhanor
Because of that, VirtualBox falls back to software virtualization and this component is buggy.