VirtualBox Manager crashes in Qt when re-starting guest export

[marshals]

VB-4.3.6 with a Windows Server 2003 guest on a Windows 7 Pro host. I can reproduce this every time with:

• In VMM, select File and Export Appliance.
• Select appliance and click on Next and Next and Export.
• In progress popup, click on red X button and wait for it to cancel.
• Click on Export again and Manager crashes.

If I debug, VS2008 tells me:

Unhandled exception at 0x555a3f89 in VirtualBox.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x0000017c00000193.

and the top of the callstack is in QtCoreVBox4.dll.

I presume the VBox.log is of no use, it seems independent of which guest I export, but let me know if there's anything I can provide.

[VVP]

yes, please, provide the VBox.log or other logging files. It may be useful anyway.

[frank]

I guess the VBoxSVC.log file is more useful in that case.

[VVP]

please, before clicking the second time on the button "export" check that VBoxSVC is alive (running). Also the VBoxSVC.log file is still needed.

[marshals]

sorry for not noticing your notes - for some reason i am not being emailed of them

[marshals]

log after reexport crash

[marshals]

according to Task Manager, VBoxSVC remained alive, even after the crash.

[marshals]

fwiw

[VVP]

apologize for awaiting. I have checked this several times on a Windows 7 enterprise host (not on a Windows 7 Pro). But I can't reproduce the crash on release build. is it possible that you use debug build (you mentioned - "If I debug, VS2008 tells me...")?

[frank]

marshals, can you provide a minidump for this crash?

[VVP]

just in case, here information about creating minidump - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Core_dump

[marshals]

Replying to VVP:

just in case, here information about creating minidump - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Core_dump

when it crashes, windows offers me the chance to debug. if i debug with vs2008, i get the chance to save a minidump, which i've done and i'll attach here. note that this is a stock 4.3.6 release.

[marshals]

minidump

[VVP]

marshals, investigation of minidump didn't very help us. would you provide a full dump (kernel dump) for this crash?

[marshals]

Replying to VVP:

marshals, investigation of minidump didn't very help us. would you provide a full dump (kernel dump) for this crash?

I ran procdump, then started VB and reproduced the crash:

C:\Users\marshals\ProcDump>procdump.exe -h -w -ma VirtualBox.exe

ProcDump v6.00 - Writes process dump files
Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
With contributions from Andrew Richards

Waiting for process named VirtualBox.exe...

Process:               VirtualBox.exe (13124)
CPU threshold:         n/a
Performance counter:   n/a
Commit threshold:      n/a
Threshold seconds:     n/a
Number of dumps:       1
Hung window check:     Enabled
Exception monitor:     Disabled
Exception filter:      *
Terminate monitor:     Disabled
Dump file:             C:\Users\marshals\ProcDump\VirtualBox_YYMMDD_HHMMSS.dmp

[14:29:42] Hung Window
Writing dump file C:\Users\marshals\ProcDump\VirtualBox_140131_142942.dmp ...
Writing 116MB. Estimated time (less than) 3 seconds.
Dump written.

Dump count reached.

[marshals]

I can't attach the dump to the ticket - it's 116M and the attachment limit is only 0.5M.

How can I get the dump to you?

[frank]

Sorry, there is no anonymous FTP server available. Can you upload the dump to some hosting service and provide us the URL? Please don't forget to compress the file. If you don't want to have this link public you can also email me at frank _dot_ mehnert _at_ oracle _dot_ com. Thank you!

[marshals]

Replying to frank:

If you don't want to have this link public you can also email me at frank _dot_ mehnert _at_ oracle _dot_ com.

Done - let me know if u don't get the link by email or cannot otherwise access the zip.

[VVP]

thx, full dump was more informative, but anyway the reason of the failure is strange. I found the place in the code. It looks trivial. And I can't reproduce the crash on Win7 with 4.3.6 release. could you try to export a simple VM without any additional\extra settings? just create VM, attach any working VDI image to IDE and make export.

[marshals]

Replying to VVP:

thx, could you try to export a simple VM without any additional\extra settings? just create VM, attach any working VDI image to IDE and make export.

here's what i did to create a vm:

• new vm, name 12586, and create
• choose fixed size hdd, 10G, and create

no other changes to settings from defaults. i chose 10G bcos that gives me enough time to subsequently cancel an export - ymmv. i then followed the original recipe to trigger the crash on re-export after cancel. i have reproduced this crash with these recipes on 2 different host pcs, (a) an i3220 running win7hp64bit and (b) a w3530 running win7pro64bit, both with vb-4.3.6.

i'll attach the vbox file from the w3530 pc, in case it is any use. since this is a fresh vm, there is no log file. i presume the vdi is not worth getting to you.

what else would you like me to do?

[marshals]

new vm

[VVP]

I suppose that something broken in CDROM export. Did your original VM contain CDROM too? If you don't need CDROM just remove it from VM and try export again. I hope it'll help.

[marshals]

Replying to VVP:

I suppose that something broken in CDROM export. Did your original VM contain CDROM too? If you don't need CDROM just remove it from VM and try export again. I hope it'll help.

yes, that seems to be the problem. if i create the vm as above, then remove the cd-rom, i can cancel an export and re-export without a crash. when i add back a cd-rom, i can reproduce the crash as before.

so, i presume u have found the cause and can fix it now?

[VVP]

it was fixed in svn.

[frank]

Fix is part of VBox 4.3.10.