Win-XPpro hangs on shutdown

[Perry G]

I believe this issue started after some work was done on the absolute pointer, maybe in regards to some win 98 patching, but don't hold me to it. It is certainly affected in 4.0.12 and newer. It seems that if you try to power down an XP guest and the absolute pointer is activated in the guest settings Windows get all the way to the last and just hangs. You can click the red X and select to power down and it will finish the shutdown. Disabling the absolute pointer solves this. I can pass the guest logs but don't think you need them since the actual defect is known.

Others with issues: ​http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=43822&start=0

Marked as major only because it is a major PITA but you can change it to what ever suites you since there is no just annoying priority.

[Shahar Or]

I don't know why this happens. It is not consistent in any way that I've seen so far.

[Shahar Or]

OK it is consistent. With absolute pointing device on shut down works. Restart seemingly reaches the point where the OS tells the hardware to restart and it stays on.

Absolute pointing device off = Restart works.

Cheers.

[Zach]

This bug is confirmed. Guest hangs every time on "Windows is shutting down" if "Absolute pointing device" set to on. Windows XP SP2/3 (32-bit) guest on Win7 x64 host.

[Brian]

This bug is confirmed with Windows Server 2003 as the guest in VirtualBox 4.1.2.

[anybody]

Not yet fixed in VirtualBox 4.1.4 :-(

[Frank Mehnert]

Did you update the Guest Additions?

[anybody]

Shame on me!

I had indeed not done that, and that is of course what actually solved problem :-) I've tried lots of reboots and 4 shutdowns and they all worked perfectly now with the absolute pointing device enabled.

[Frank Mehnert]

That's are good news, thanks for the feedback!

[dewijant]

This problem is not solved.

I use Virtual Box with Windows Server 2003 as guest and shutdown sometime works sometime not :(. Host OS is Windows Server 2008. I disabled absolute pointing device.

I use Virtual Box 4.1.6

[Lauscher]

I'm using a physical installed XP both physical and virtual using raw disk access. This problem has been both in physical and virtual mode of XP. After disabling absolute pointing device the problem dissapears in virtual mode, but it is still there in physical mode. So I think the issue can be found inside of the guest additions, because VirtualBox is not present in physical mode except by the installed guest additions.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.