Enabling VT-x/AMD-V results in guest W2K BSOD (regression) -> fixed in SVN

[Kurt Frank]

Host: Windows XP pro x64 (Intel Q9450 CPU)

Guest: Windows 2000

If hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V)is enabled then Windows 2000 will BSOD when booting up with a "Page Fault in Nonpaged Area" message.

Note that W2K will in fact install through both textmode and GUI aspects of setup, failure only occurs once it is fully installed and tries to do a "normal" boot.

This problem is new with the 3.1.x series, 3.0.12 did not have this problem.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Which service pack for the win2k guest?

[Kurt Frank]

Fully updated install medium (SP4 + all updates, slipstreamed disk)

I can use the image if I turn off VT-x, turn it on and it go boom.

[Kurt Frank]

Problem still exists in 3.1.6

[Frank Mehnert]

Problem confirmed. Another workaround would be to decrease the amount of guest RAM to 1024MB or less. We are investigating.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Problem fixed and will be included in the next release.

[Frank Mehnert]

This fix is not included in VBox 3.1.8 since the fix is not risk-free.

[Kurt Frank]

So hold off until 3.1.10 then?

[Sander van Leeuwen]

It will be in 3.2.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please verify that it works with 3.2.0.

[Kurt Frank]

It appears that the problem has been fixed, that is my W2K VM boots without problems.

[Frank Mehnert]

Thank you for the feedback!