#21634 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Invalid VM settings without notification
| Reported by: | dnordenberg | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox-7.0.6 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Windows |
Description
Hi! After a upgrade from 7.0.2 to 7.0.6 my windows 10 guest stopped booting and only ended in a locked up state or in repair mode all the time. The problem was that Nested VT-x happened to be enabled on a CPU which did not support VMCS Shadowing. If I unchecked this option it would be grayed out the next time I open the VM settings indicating clearly that this setting should not be available but VirtualBox did not show it in any way if it already was enabled. I think it should hint about unavailable options being enabled by older versions which probably did not do the same check and allowed it to be enabled by mistake. I think it should say "invalid settings detected" like it does on many other invalid combinations.
See https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=108435 for a longer forum thread about the issue.
Duplicate of #21635.