VM crashes when first booting after installing Utimaco SafeGuard Enterprise

[Cassiano Bertol Leal]

This was tested on VirtualBox 3.0.8 and 3.0.10, on both the open and closed source versions.

I am running a Debian testing amd64 box.

I have Windows XP installed on this VM. I need to have it encrypted with SafeGuard Enterprise in order to meet company policy.

After I install SafeGuard, it boots into a Windows blue screen (not a BSOD) with the message that it's installing the "SGN Base Encryption Kernel", and then reboots.

While booting, the VM crashes.

Note that I have this setup in another VM on a 32 bit system and it works fine. I have even copied this VM's virtual hard disk over and booted it and it worked after a couple of attempts.

I am attaching the log.

[Cassiano Bertol Leal]

Log of the crashed VM

[Cassiano Bertol Leal]

Reference to the encryption program that I'm talking about: ​http://www.sophos.com/products/enterprise/encryption/safeguard-enterprise/

[Cassiano Bertol Leal]

It is possible to download a trial version in the referred page. The crash is reproducible with this trial.

On the first boot after the installation of the SGN Base Encryption Kernel, VirtualBox crashes. Subsequent boots accuse a corruption of \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM (probably the file that was being read from / written to when the crash happened -- same one every time).

[Frank Mehnert]

There was a fix in VBox 4.0.4 which could fix your issue. Can you retry?

[Cassiano Bertol Leal]

I'm really sorry. I've changed jobs and have lost access to the offending s/w.