From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: Windows7 crashes inside the VM when starting a certain program Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:01:09 +0200 Message-ID: <4E314F85.8070203@redhat.com> References: <4E154370.5090101@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Weidemann?= Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f52.google.com ([209.85.212.52]:45853 "EHLO mail-vw0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754366Ab1G1MBQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:01:16 -0400 Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so2839347vws.11 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:01:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E154370.5090101@web.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/07/2011 07:26 AM, Andr=E9 Weidemann wrote: > Hi, > I am running Windows7 x64 in a VM which crashes after starting a cert= ain > game. Actually there are two games both from the same company, that m= ake > 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 seco= nds > 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 th= e > 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,=20 0xC0000096--privileged instruction, only sometimes in user mode (but in= =20 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=20 the failing instruction? Thanks, Paolo