From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Weidemann?= Subject: Re: Windows7 crashes inside the VM when starting a certain program Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:16:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4E316134.3060703@web.de> References: <4E154370.5090101@web.de> <4E314F85.8070203@redhat.com> 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: Paolo Bonzini Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:49411 "EHLO fmmailgate01.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753758Ab1G1NQj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:16:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E314F85.8070203@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Paolo, On 28.07.2011 14:01, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > 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 cer= tain >> 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 sec= onds >> 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 t= he >> 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 kerne= l > mode. > > Can you open the produced dump in WinDbg and post a disassemble aroun= d > the failing instruction? I haven't used debuggers very much, so I hope I grabbed the correct=20 lines from the disassembly: http://pastebin.com/t3sfvmTg Andr=E9