VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#2882 closed defect (fixed)

Windows XP converted from VMWare Freezes with SATA Disk Attached

Reported by: Paul Kronenwetter Owned by:
Component: virtual disk Version: VirtualBox 2.1.0
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Windows Host type: Linux

Description

This is a little complicated and may be related to either bug #2282 or bug #2261 or none at all. Here's the situation:

I have a VMWare Windows XP guest converted and running in VB on 3 IDE disks. I've installed the Intel Matrix SATA drivers (v8.6.0.1007) and several other previous versions. The SATA controller is seen and everything behaves as long as no disks are connected to the virtual SATA controller.

When I connect a 2GB, VB-created disk formatted with NTFS, the guest OS never fully boots. By never fully boots, I mean it goes as far as displaying the XP logo with the slider graphic moving and never progresses to the login screen. It was formatted as an IDE disk originally and re-connected to the SATA 0 port.

I've done a fresh install with IDE, installed the Intel 8.6.0.1007 drivers and have been able to reconnect the disk as SATA and it's working happily. So I know the drivers and disks work. I was also able to see and use the 2GB disk mentioned above. I've captured IDE-only and IDE with SATA logs and attached them here. What other information can I give to make this bug useful?

Attachments (2)

WinXP_IDE.log (43.4 KB ) - added by Paul Kronenwetter 15 years ago.
IDE-only boot, everything normal.
WinXP_SATA.log (56.7 KB ) - added by Paul Kronenwetter 15 years ago.
IDE + SATA disks. - Never prompts to login.

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Change History (7)

by Paul Kronenwetter, 15 years ago

Attachment: WinXP_IDE.log added

IDE-only boot, everything normal.

by Paul Kronenwetter, 15 years ago

Attachment: WinXP_SATA.log added

IDE + SATA disks. - Never prompts to login.

comment:1 by Paul Kronenwetter, 15 years ago

I should also mention that I noticed the SATA disks never completed the bus RESET that the IDE disks did. This RESET is performed on the newly built system that's now running on SATA.

comment:2 by Paul Kronenwetter, 15 years ago

I've been a little more attentive to the goings on with this VM recently. I noticed that the freeze occurs immediately after mouse integration mode is enabled by the guest utilities. It's not consistent and it only seems to happen on this VM. I'll keep tweaking it to see if there's an odd combination of things starting up.

comment:3 by Paul Kronenwetter, 15 years ago

I understand that this is probably not the right forum for this problem, but I'm open to suggestions as to another forum where someone might be able to help with this. I'm not a heavy-duty Windows hacker, but I've managed to crash and restore this XP box more than I'd care to admit trying to figure out exactly what is causing these problems... Thanks!

comment:4 by Paul Kronenwetter, 15 years ago

I've upgraded to VirtualBox v2.2.2 and the latest version of the Intel Matrix drivers and it finally works. Thanks all!

comment:5 by aeichner, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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