Movie Maker with Windows Vista

[jeinzi]

Hey!

I need to use the old Windows Movie Maker and therefore I set up a Windows Vista machine.

Issue: Movie Maker starts fine after some tinkering, but the guest OS crashes if anything is done with the timeline.

Things I did:

• Installed Windows Vista
• Installed all available updates (+ Firefox)
• Installed guest additions 6.0.14 multiple times with different settings, inside and outside of Safe Mode
• Added one shared directory

VM settings:

• 2 GB RAM
• 2 CPU cores
• 3D acceleration enabled
• 2D acceleration enabled
• VBoxSVGA
• 256 MB graphics memory

At first, Movie Maker did not start at all because it needs graphics acceleration. Also, it didn't start when I installed the Guest Additions with regular Direct3D support - dxdiag.exe reported that there was no Direct3D acceleration available. Installing the Guest Additions with the experimental Aero (WDDM) support failed once in safe mode, but succeeded on the second try. Movie Maker starts fine now, but as soon as an item is added to the media timeline or moved within it, the Guest OS freezes for a few seconds, then reboots.

Anything I can do to help debug this problem?

[Socratis]

Replying to jeinzi:

Anything I can do to help debug this problem?

Yes! Head to the forums! ;)

1. It's usually better and faster, if issues get first addressed in the ​VirtualBox forums, a lot more eyes there. More than 95% of the issues are resolved in the forums, which keeps the developers focusing on the bug fixes and enhancements, and there is no need for another ticket to keep track of.

Plus a discussion and analysis on the bug tracker is going to help me, is going to help you, and potentially a future drive-by user or two. Not so in the forums, many more tend to benefit...

2. You were supposed to follow these steps when you filed the bug, and provide a VBox.log:

   Attach a (full) log file ("Machine" menu/"Show Log" in the main VirtualBox Manager window) straight away to save time for you and for us. The log file contains a lot of useful information about both the host and the guest systems as well as information about what happened during a particular machine run. Please do not cut and paste it.

So, please open a new thread in the ​Windows Guests section of the forums with your "VBox.log" (ZIPPED please). Please be sure to mention that you came from the bug tracker and include the ticket number.