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

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

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.

Can you open the produced dump in WinDbg and post a disassemble around 
the failing instruction?

Thanks,

Paolo