Re: Windows7 crashes inside the VM when starting a certain program

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 02:01:09PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 07:26 AM, André Weidemann wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I am running Windows7 x64 in a VM which crashes after starting a certain
> >game. Actually there are two games both from the same company, that make
> >the VM crash after starting them.
> >Windows crashes right after starting the game. With the 1st game the
> >screen goes black as usual and the cursor keeps spinning for 3-5 seconds
> >until Windows crashes. With the second game I get to 3D the login
> >screen. The game then crashes after logging in.
> >Windows displays this error message on the first crash:
> >http://pastebin.com/kMzk9Jif
> >Windows then finishes writing the crash dump and restarts.
> >I can reproduce Windows crashing every time I start the game while the
> >VM keeps running without any problems.
> >When Windows reboots after the first crash and the game is started
> >again, the message on the following blue screen changes slightly and
> >stays the same(except for the addresses) for every following crash:
> >http://pastebin.com/jVtBc4ZH
> 
> The blue screens seem to be for the same exception,
> 0xC0000096--privileged instruction, only sometimes in user mode (but
> in a system service, which also causes a blue screen) sometimes in
> kernel mode.
> 
And I assume 0xFFFFF800028D8C0C is the instruction address? If yes then can
you do "x/i 0xFFFFF800028D8C0C" in qemu monitor then (or whatever new
address it will show you).

> Can you open the produced dump in WinDbg and post a disassemble
> around the failing instruction?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo
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			Gleb.