Windows 2003 R2 Guest aborts when NAT interface is attached but host machine has no connectivity

[Daniel Hamilton]

Host OS: Ubuntu 8.10 GNU/Linux; Guest OS: Windows Server 2003 R2

Windows 2003 R2 guest aborts at the login screen when the guest has a network adaptor attached to NAT and the host machines network adaptor is down/not connected.

Repeatable: Yes

Work around: Before starting the VM set the "Attached To" field for the adaptor to not attached. This allows the VM to start and operate normally.

[Daniel Hamilton]

Virtual Box Log File

[Daniel Hamilton]

Attempted to upload core dump - failed due to size of file being rather large :)

[vasily Levchenko]

Thanks for report, Could you please do the following: contact me (vasily [dot] levchenko [at] Sun [dot] COM) I will give instruction where core file could be uploaded. Could you please also collect network statistic before the crash.

#VBoxManage modify [your-vm] -nictrace1 on -nictracefile1 nat.pcap
#VirtualBox -startvm [your-vm]

Then attach it here or send me via mail.

[Frank Mehnert]

I contacted Daniel already by private E-mail.

[Daniel Hamilton]

I collected the network statistics before the crash as requested and uploaded both the core file and pcap file to the ftp site specified.

The files are core_dump_bug_3964.file and nat_bug_3964.pcap

Hope that helps

[Daniel Hamilton]

Can confirm that this bug is fixed in as of version 2.2.4 r47978

Many Thanks