VirtualBox: Windows7 guest stopped working

[pullmoll]

System

• xuname:
  Void 5.0.13_1 x86_64 AuthenticAMD uptodate rrrdFFFFFF
• package:
  virtualbox-ose-6.0.6_1

Expected behavior

Being able to to use my years old *.vbox and *.vdi files, or at least be able to boot Win7 installer ISO.

Actual behavior

Neither my installed Win7 nor the Windows7 installer ISO will work. They print a message about the ACPI being incompatible and stop "to avoid damage to my software". The stop code is 165 (0x000000a5).

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Try to boot a Win7 installer ISO in VirtualBox 6.0.6 perhaps?

I tried various combinations of # of virtual cores, RAM, PCIIX3 and ICH9 chipsets, accelerator modes. I found no combination that works.

I can use the same *.vdi files in qemu, but of course that invalidates my license because Microsoft thinks this is a different machine. sigh

Any ideas or similar reports yet?

[Hoshpak]

Possibly related upstream bug report: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18628

[pullmoll]

Yeah, seems to be the same problem though the description is a bit scarce.
No, wait, as I understand it after reading again this is the other way round: VirutalBox on Win7 trying to run a VM.

[sgn]

Possibly related to acpica/acpica#462

[pullmoll]

Oh, yes. Thanks for the pointer. I'll give it a try.

[sgn]

On May 11, 2019 5:31:26 PM UTC, "Jürgen Buchmüller" ***@***.***> wrote: Oh, yes. Thanks for the pointer. I'll give it a try.

The linked pull request works for me. I think it's worth a try. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

[pullmoll]

Solved and merged the acpica update.