Windows VMs Keep Crashing

[nickro8303]

So I've tried several different windows 7 VMs and once with Win 8.1 and each time after I get all the drivers installed and everything seems to be working after about 20 minutes it crashes and won't boot after that. Anybody else having trouble using windows VMs? I have an Ubuntu VM running that seems to be stable. Not sure what the problem is other than maybe KVM just doesn't work well with Windows installations? Any ideas?

 

Log from my current Windows 8.1 VM

 

2015-05-19 14:47:10.186+0000: shutting down

2015-05-19 16:01:21.971+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.2.15, qemu version: 2.3.0

Domain id=9 is tainted: high-privileges

Domain id=9 is tainted: host-cpu

char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 (label charserial0)

qemu: terminating on signal 15 from pid 4568

2015-05-19 16:32:42.917+0000: shutting down

2015-05-19 16:32:47.771+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.2.15, qemu version: 2.3.0

Domain id=10 is tainted: high-privileges

Domain id=10 is tainted: host-cpu

char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0)

KVM internal error. Suberror: 1

emulation failure

RAX=000000013c496000 RBX=00000000004b4a60 RCX=0000000000000000 RDX=0000000000000000

RSI=0000000000000000 RDI=0000000000000001 RBP=0000000000061ee0 RSP=ffffd000210f4ff8

R8 =0000000000000000 R9 =0000000000000000 R10=0000000000000000 R11=0000000000000000

R12=0000000000000000 R13=0000000000000000 R14=0000000000000000 R15=0000000000000000

RIP=fffff80000dcc833 RFL=00000086 [--S--P-] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0

ES =002b 0000000000000000 ffffffff 00c0f300 DPL=3 DS [-WA]

CS =0010 0000000000000000 00000000 00209b00 DPL=0 CS64 [-RA]

SS =0018 0000000000000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA]

DS =002b 0000000000000000 ffffffff 00c0f300 DPL=3 DS [-WA]

FS =0060 0000000000024ad0 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS [-WA]

GS =0060 0000000000024ad0 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS [-WA]

LDT=0000 0000000000000000 0000ffff 00000000

TR =0040 0000000000025f50 00000077 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS64-busy

GDT= fffff80212016000 0000007f

IDT= fffff80212016080 00000fff

CR0=80050031 CR2=fffff80000dcc833 CR3=00000000001a7000 CR4=000006f8

DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000

DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400

EFER=0000000000005d01

Code=?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??

qemu: terminating on signal 15 from pid 4568

2015-05-19 16:34:45.869+0000: shutting down

2015-05-19 16:35:06.043+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.2.15, qemu version: 2.3.0

Domain id=11 is tainted: high-privileges

Domain id=11 is tainted: host-cpu

char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0)

qemu: terminating on signal 15 from pid 4568

2015-05-19 16:36:59.753+0000: shutting down

[itimpi]

I am running Windows 7 Pro, 8 Pro, 8.1 Pro and 10 Pro VM's without any stability issues.  They run for days on end without problems.   

 

In case it matters I have them all set up with a br0 bridged network so that they get their own IP addresses, and I am accessing them via RDP - not using any sort of pass thru for the graphics.

[nickro8303]

That's exactly how I set mine up. Weird. I don't know what I'm doing wrong here. They seem to be stable and I start installing apps and configuring things and it crashes and won't boot again after that. On the first two Win 7 VMs they both BSOD when trying to boot and the Win 8.1 VM just hangs at the splash screen.

[nickro8303]

So apparently it was Avast AV that was causing the crashes. I was able to boot into safe mode and disable it and that seems to have fixed the issue. Just FYI

[GHunter]

You might try checking if there is a bios update for your motherboard. I've had BSOD's with Windows 7 VM's and a bios update I did a few weeks back seem to have resolved them. What machine type, Q35 or i440fx? I think i440fx is the recommended type for Windows VM's now so you might want to give that a shot too.

 

Gary