@socratis
sry i obfuscate unrelated information on public forum..
the hdd is sata internal laptop drive; the .vdi file is on a NTFS partition mounted by ntfs3g
pls note i refuse to betatest the new virtualbox also refuse to keep default settings on guest machines
@ChipMcK -
driver for xp32 is 1.9.11.0 10/8/2003
driver for xp64 is 5.2.3790.3959 10/1/2002
driver for win764 is 1.28.3.67 3/30/2009
win764 has proper driver in its iso; winxp32/64 had to comb the net as Lsi is a ghost from paleolithic (anw trusted source)
all my windows guests have that bug while host i/o is active
i come to use Lsi becouse is 3 time faster then sata/ide, is just a fad, i used sata/ide till 1 month ago as i was to lazy to look for scsi drivers for xp..
@mpack
i opened the thread to flare a bug..
all my windows machines, while host I/O cache is on sometimes freeze before boot screen; strange though my linux guests on same controller
with I/O cache on are ok
im aware the product is a bloat and can happily switch to vmware/kvm, virtualbox is a residue from my windows days
pls mark the thread as fixed, i found the workaround and filed the bug
with pictures and logs.. i have nothing more to add
this beta tester switching off