[Spice-devel] cut/paste failure on Windows 7 guest

[Erik Lotspeich]

Hi,

Just as a datapoint, I've seen a similar crash in guest-tools-0.2 on my
Windows 8 VM. I switched back to IDE from VIO disk and the crashing stopped.

Regards

Erik

On 01/10/2013 04:44 AM, Han Pilmeyer wrote:
> 
> On 09/01/2013 10:46, Han Pilmeyer wrote:
>> Just to follow up on my earlier problems. I did try the RHEV 3.1 guest
>> drivers with F17, but those had the same problem. I then switched
>> laptops and installed F18 on the new laptop together with the
>> guest-tools-0.3 drivers in the same guest images. My cut/paste
>> problems seem to have been resolved as are the frequent problems with
>> vdagent failing to start. This makes my life much easier. Thanks for
>> providing those drivers!
>>
>> Now I just need to find out how I can enable smb traffic between the
>> host and the guest using samba with the new FirewallD stuff in F18.
>> But that's a different story.
>>
> It appears that I spoke too soon, i.e. the cut/paste problem is indeed
> fixed and I am still happy about that. Unfortunately the guest-tools-0.3
> drivers seem to have introduced a new problem that is even worse than
> what I experienced before, they crash the Windows 7 guest images. I have
> had multiple crashes so far and these happen when I am not specifically
> doing anything in the guest (I try to avoid saying they are idle, as I
> never quite know what Windows is doing behind the scenes). I estimate
> that they crash after half an hour or so.
> 
> The offending driver appears to be vioser.sys as shown by the very
> limited information (a screenshot of the BSOD) I managed to capture:
> 
> *** STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x8B98C037, 0x8A40BACC, 0x00000000)
> 
> ***        vioser.sys - Address 8B98C037 base at 8B988000, Datestamp
> 50b73b6d
> 
> Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
> 
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