IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD

[Bruce Williamson]

Upgraded to V4.1.0 Installed Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack VM booted without a problem Upgraded Guest Additions to V4.1.0 VM fails to boot with the following error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

[Bruce Williamson]

BSOD

[Bruce Williamson]

VBoxSVC

[Bruce Williamson]

VBox

[misha]

Could you attach a ​minidump for the crash?

[Matt]

Not sure if this is the same or similar issue, but in ticket #9110 I tried installing 64-bit Windows 7 Professional with Service Pack 1 into a VirtualBox 4.1.0 guest and, though Windows setup completed without issue, any time I would try logging in or sometimes just before the login screen would appear the following IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL blue screen would occur:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:	BlueScreen
  OS Version:	6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:	1033

Additional information about the problem:
  BCCode:	a
  BCP1:	FFFFF683217FCF80
  BCP2:	0000000000000000
  BCP3:	0000000000000000
  BCP4:	FFFFF800026D6822
  OS Version:	6_1_7601
  Service Pack:	1_0
  Product:	256_1

In my case, this cannot be attributed to Guest Additions because it was a brand new Windows installation and I wasn't yet able to even log in to try installing the Additions. I will attach a minidump of this error.

[Matt]

Before Windows 7 login screen, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL minidump

[Bruce Williamson]

BAD_POOL_CALLER

[Bruce Williamson]

Core dump sent to Frank, subject: Ticket #9401 - Core Dump

@bacon, after the initial BSOD I booted into safe mode and uninstalled the Guest Additions and rebooted into normal mode but continued to receive the BSOD.

Now when I try to boot into safe mode I get a different BSOD details of which are above.

I've sent this additional core dump sent to Frank, subject: Ticket #9401 - Core Dump BAD_POOL_CALLER

[Frank Mehnert]

aztrix, the core dumps do not make sense here as this is a problem only visible inside the guest, not on the host. From analyzing your core dump I saw that you forced the VM process to dump a core. But Misha was asking for a minidump from the guest.

[Bruce Williamson]

so how do i get a minidump from the guest if i can't boot into it?

[Bruce Williamson]

i'm not questioning your knowledge but according to:

​http://www.virtualbox.org/newticket ...

If you want to report a crash on a Windows host, please attach a minidump if possible.

i'm running a win xp guest on a linux host.

i'm a little confused, please correct my understanding of the procedure so i can give you the right info first time ... hopefully :-)

[Matt]

After my guest would blue screen during normal boot, I was able to boot using "Safe mode with networking" and copy the resulting minidump to a network share. Since you're not able to boot into safe mode, either, can you boot some kind of LiveCD with NTFS support and copy the minidump from the %WinDir%\minidump directory to a network share? You could also try attaching the system disk to a bootable guest to access the minidump.

[misha]

Replying to aztrix:

so how do i get a minidump from the guest if i can't boot into it?

You can attach the vdi image to another VM (as a secondary disk), boot that VM and access that disk data from there

[misha]

Replying to aztrix:

i'm a little confused, please correct my understanding of the procedure so i can give you the right info first time ... hopefully :-)

Unless you changed the defaults, the minidump should be in %windir%\Minudump directory.

[Bruce Williamson]

Minudump directory doesn't exist when I log into win xp natively.

[Frank Mehnert]

Wild guess: Does changing the chipset type from ICH9 to PIIX3 change anything?