[CRITICAL] Network driver causing system crashes on windows 11

[pizzamonkey]

I'd seen this bug reported in other places, but no currently open tickets mention hard, system-wide crashes. One of them mentions being disconnected from the wifi for a brief time, but this is way worse than just that.

I hadn't even used VirtualBox at all since my computer started up, but any time I try to load more intensive websites on my host operating system (completely independent from VB I might add), it has about a 1 in 10 chance of crashing my entire OS. Straight to black screen, computer shuts off and reboots.

I only use virtualbox once in a while, so imagine my surprise when I started investigating why my computer keeps crashing only to find that this event was found before every crash. Initially I thought that was a bug in this version of the software and updated to 6.1.36, but nothing changed on that front.

I love open source projects, but honestly if this isn't fixed soon I may have to switch to a proprietary VM software, simply because I can't leave this installed on my computer if it's going to cause crashes every other day. It didn't used to happen before I updated to the most recent version of windows, but the fact remains that this driver is still the cause of those crashes.

The problem always correlates with an event "The driver detected an internal driver error on \Device\VBoxNetLwf." The event has ID 12 and is listed under the keyword "classic".

[pizzamonkey]

The XML from the event viewer

[shypoly]

That happened on me with Windows 10 and VirtualBox v7.0.8 and I saw the changelog and it hasn't been patched. That happens from anything Network-heavy such as playing video games (specifiacly Fall Guys) and watching videos on Youtube. Edit: XML Error

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
  <Provider Name="VBoxNetLwf" /> 
  <EventID Qualifiers="49156">12</EventID> 
  <Version>0</Version> 
  <Level>2</Level> 
  <Task>0</Task> 
  <Opcode>0</Opcode> 
  <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> 
  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2023-10-29T19:10:00.7913855Z" /> 
  <EventRecordID>55497</EventRecordID> 
  <Correlation /> 
  <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="384" /> 
  <Channel>System</Channel> 
  <Computer>LAPTOP-PF6IE4KN</Computer> 
  <Security /> 
  </System>
- <EventData>
  <Data>\Device\VBoxNetLwf</Data> 
  <Binary>0000080001000000000000000C0004C008000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000FFE7E6660B0000</Binary> 
  </EventData>
  </Event>