Virtual Machine restarting without reason once in a while

[SzwadronySmierc]

Hi

My guest OS is pretty vanilla WinXP SP3 (1 CPU). In the last 40 or so hours of work, it has suddenly restarted twice without good (or any) reason. Here's what was written into the VM logs:

Jul 18 22:20:00.101: vmx| Link pointer mismatch: QH 0, TD 0x23af980

Jul 18 22:20:00.101: vmx| UHCI: TD offset(0) link(0xbadf00d) active(0) pid(69) len(6)

Jul 18 22:20:00.386: mks| VNCENCODE 12 encoding desktop size: (640x480x24depth,32bpp)

Jul 18 22:20:00.491: vcpu-0| VNET: MACVNetConnectToNetwork: Ethernet0: notify available

Jul 18 22:20:00.497: vcpu-0| CPU reset: soft (mode 1)

I'm doing all my work with that VM via VNC client.

Can anyone help me out with this? Those restarts are ruining my setup.

[Scissor]

Anything "interesting" in your Guest's Event Logs?

If you attach the latest DMP file in the Guest's c:\windows\minidump\ folder I can try to take a look at it and see if anything obvious is shown ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263 )

[SzwadronySmierc]

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately Guest OS had much trouble restarting after each of those crashes and I needed it to work right away (within a few minutes), so each time I just restored a working snapshot. I'll try to get a hold of minidump and look into Win's logs next time.