2009-10-04

Virtual Machine Disk Failures - Problem in Progress


ENVIRONMENT
Supermicro X8DAL-i, Vista x64 (host), Windows Home Server (Windows 2003-like guest), Parallels/Virtualbox VM, 3Ware 9650 RAID-5 1TB-3, Intel IHC10R, SATA drives (1TB X2, 500GB X3), 6GB RAM, Intel 5520 (Xeon),PNY Nvidia 9600GT, PC Power 910W.

GUEST OS EVENT LOG ERRORS
event 11 - driver detected a controller error on \device\ide\IdePort1
event 9  - device \Device\Ide\IdePort1 did not respond within the timeout period  (6X)
event 51 - An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1 during a paging operation 5X
event 50 - Delayed write failed . . . 5X
event 51 - the device Virtual HDD '0' IDE\DiskVirtual__HDD(0) FWR10003 . . . disappeared from the system w/o being first prepared for removal.

HOST OS ERRORS
None

More details on the Virtualbox forum.

WORKING HYPOTHESES
  • 3Ware battery backup unit failure (But timeouts happen or appear to happen on the non-3Ware drive)
  • Firmware issue with SMC MBO
  • VM over 3Ware RAID instability
  • Special circumstance with VM and WHS
  • Special circumstance with WHS

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