VM Aborts On Laptop Suspend OR Machine Pause

[yato]

Hello,

Recently updated to 6.0.14 on Windows 10, hosting a Centos guest.

Two scenarios trigger a VM abort, maybe 50% of the time: [1] pause VM (Machine -> Pause) ]2] send laptop to sleep

A dialog will pop up (immediately for [1] and on resume for [2]).

Attaching logs and a screenshot of the dialog.

Cheers, yato

[yato]

Screenshot

[yato]

Logs for Machine/Suspend

[Socratis]

From the VBox.log:

1:55:08.225609 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'SUSPENDING'
11:55:08.274853
11:55:08.274854 !!! rtR3WinUnhandledXcptFilter caught an exception on thread 0000000000004204!!!
11:55:08.274865
11:55:08.274865 ExceptionCode=0xc0000005 ExceptionFlags=0x00000000 ExceptionAddress=00007ffa571a8201

That "ExceptionCode=0xc0000005" looks like you might be having a hardening problem...

Please read really carefully the following FAQ: ​Diagnosing VirtualBox Hardening Issues for some generic guidelines/ideas. Those are guidelines, you have to use your judgement as to which program might be responsible...

[yato]

Thanks.

The hardening logs point at dsound.dll. Disabling sound altogether on VM settings has made this go away. We'll investigate the interaction with dsound.dll further ..

Cheers, yato

[Socratis]

Replying to yato:

The hardening logs point at dsound.dll. Disabling sound altogether on VM settings has made this go away. We'll investigate the interaction with dsound.dll further

That's interesting... Can you please post a "VBoxHardening.log" from such a failed session so we can have a better understanding of the situation? There's nothing obvious in the "VBox.log" that points to something like that, nor would I expect it to be.

In the guide that I pointed you to, there are some generic troubleshooting steps that might help, especially the "sfc /scannow" command...

[Mikael Strom]

MacOS crash when "un-pausing" paused VM.

[Mikael Strom]

kernel panic when starting VM with ICH AC97 enabled.

[Mikael Strom]

I experience similar issues, however, I'm on iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) and MacOS 10.14.6. Guest OS is Arch Linux 64.

I have the same issues in both VB 6.0.14 and 6.1.2.

Every time I pause and then un-pause the VirtualBox crash.

I narrowed down the issue to ICH AC97. If i select Intel HD Audio I can not reproduce the crash.

During testing, when i messed around with the audio settings, i got a kernel Panic. It happened with ICH AC97 selected. The iMac rebooted instantly when i started the VM.

See attached log files above.