Hello Ben,

If you are wanting to investigate crashes, or to help us investigate 
them, the first thing to do is to build a debug version of VirtualBox 
from the svn sources.  Debug versions produce a lot of assertions which 
may give information about the problem.  You should then start 
VirtualBox in the debugger as follows.  I assume that you have basic 
knowledge of using the GNU debugger here.

* Make sure that the kernel module is loaded and setup (if the binary 
version of VirtualBox is installed and works then that will be the case).
* Start the VirtualBox server from a terminal prompt from the VirtualBox 
build directory:

~/VirtualBox/.../out$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./VBoxSVC

* From another terminal prompt, from the same directory, start 
VirtualBox in the debugger:

~/VirtualBox/.../out$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. gdb --args ./VirtualBox -startvm 
[VM NAME]

When you get an assertion, just continue, and the assertion should get 
logged.  When the guest crashes, you can take a look at the various 
assertions, or post the log file (the one for that particular VirtualBox 
process).

Regards,

Michael

ben scott wrote:
> I have tried running an old game in both windows 2000 and XP
> with Linux as the host and both ways it has crashed windows. The
> default BSOD doesn't give much information.  Would posting the info
> be helpful and is there something I should do to get more information
> about the crash? 
> 
> Thank you.


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