4.3.27-99265 does not work with Server 2003 / XP64

[frg]

Title says it all. Virtualbox.exe does not start. No error message no nothing. Installed it twice after removing the previous installation. Nothing in the event log either. 4.3.27-99222 works fine.

[frg]

Main Windows log from 99222

[frg]

Works fine on Windows 7 x64 host on the same PC

[frg]

Windows 7 x64 Window log

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks. Any improvement with 4.3.27-r99282?

[frg]

No it' still broken. Starting virtualbox.exe does nothing. Seems to load and quit immediately.

Not sure if this has caused it:

https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/54997/vbox

No bcrypt.dll on Pre Vista Windows.

https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/54931/vbox

54931 is also bogus because XP64 / Server 2003 supports the api with KB932370

​http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/932370

but it's older and should already be in 99222 which works.

Thanks for looking into this. FRG

[Frank Mehnert]

Replying to frg:

No it' still broken. Starting virtualbox.exe does nothing. Seems to load and quit immediately.

Not sure if this has caused it:

r54997

No bcrypt.dll on Pre Vista Windows.

Indeed. This change is guilty. supR3HardenedWinLoadSystem32Dll() will not return if the DLL cannot be loaded. We will fix that.

r54931

54931 is also bogus because XP64 / Server 2003 supports the API with KB932370

​http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/932370

but it's older and should already be in 99222 which works.

This changeset is not bogus because this KB is normally not installed. The number of physical cores is used to determine if a user is allowed to start a VM with a number of VCPUs. We decided to be less restrictive on Windows 2003

[Frank Mehnert]

The latest test build (revision 99293) should fix the startup problems on pre-Vista hosts.

[frg]

Thanks. Will check it out tomorrow at the latest.

Thought that everybody who still clings to the old versions already should have KB932370 installed. I wasn't able to select more that 2 cores without it in the latest versions :)

FRG

[frg]

Good work. Fixed version is ok. Starts again without problems.

Ticket can be closed.

FRG

[Frank Mehnert]

Thank you very much for the report!