id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 8798 Async I/O thread probably stuck in operation Alex "One of the VDI files is located at an external iSCSI disk, which is mounted at the host, because of historical reasons. At high IO-load at the iSCSI disk an IO_ERR_TIMEOUT event occurs at Win2003r2 Guest and the drive located at that disk will be removed. The Windows Eventlog is: ""The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period."" at VBox Log: 03:46:39.867 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=1 CmdIf0=0xca (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x39 (9777309 usec ago) 03:46:39.889 PIIX3 ATA: Async I/O thread probably stuck in operation, interrupting . . . 03:50:08.051 PIIX3 ATA: Async I/O thread probably stuck in operation, interrupting 03:50:08.061 PIIX3 ATA: Async I/O thread probably stuck in operation, interrupting 03:50:08.065 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=1 AIOIf=1 CmdIf0=0xca (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x39 (57922482 usec ago) 03:50:08.075 PIIX3 ATA: Async I/O thread probably stuck in operation, interrupting " defect closed other VirtualBox 4.0.4 obsolete Windows Linux