[vbox-dev] VBoxDrv not stoppable? (Windows host)

[Howard Su]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Huihong Luo <huisinro at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I noticed that VBoxDrv on Windows host can't be stopped using command like
> this:
>
> net stop vboxdrv
>
> even after changing the service start value to be 3 (on demand).
>
> Is there any particular reason why this driver can't be stopped?
>
> net start vboxdrv  (after start, immediately do stop, no use at all)
> net stop vboxdrv
> sc query vboxdrv
> SERVICE_NAME: vboxdrv
>         TYPE               : 1  KERNEL_DRIVER
>
vboxdrv is a kernel driver instead of a normal service. why are u bothering
about starting/stoping it?

>         STATE              : 3  STOP_PENDING
>                                 (STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
>         WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
>         SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
>         CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
>         WAIT_HINT          : 0x0
>
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-Howard
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