Virtual disk behave differently on XP and Seven/Vista ( DRDY ERR )

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This is a very specific bug when using VirtualBox under Seven/Vista (not affecting XP).

I used raw device mapping for a Live USB key with persistency on the same machine running both XP and Seven and when I run the VM I obtain different results (bug on Seven/Vista and no-bug on XP).

When the Linux starts booting it shows many drive errors after few seconds/minutes.

This bug is affecting most Linuxes like Ubuntu and Fedora.

I can tell it's a VirtualBox bug because it's only bugging in Seven and Vista. XP works fine. I tried on many systems and was able to recreate the bug. It does not seem to be hardware-related since it occurs on the same machine only in Seven/Vista.

This is a short extract of the Linux bug (part of dmesg.log) :

[  588.162647] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[  588.162654] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor]
[  588.162663] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[  588.162668]         72 0b 14 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 
[  588.162687]         00 1c d4 40 
[  588.162696] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Recorded entity not found
[  588.162706] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1889344
[  588.162729] ata1: EH complete
[  588.170688] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[  588.170697] ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x24
[  588.170713] ata1.00: cmd ca/00:02:4c:d4:1c/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 1024 out
[  588.170716]          res 41/10:02:4c:d4:1c/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x81 (invalid argument)
[  588.170723] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[  588.170728] ata1.00: error: { IDNF }
[  588.173236] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33

Notes : This bug also only occurs on Persistent Live USB (read/write) not on simple Live USB (read only).

I tried to change the adapter type (SATA/SCSI) and they all have the same kind of bug.

I hope you can do something about it.

Thank you in advance.

Tibo

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dmesg log file of Linux when running in Seven

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VBox log file when running Linux in Seven

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dmesg log file of Linux when running in XP

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VBox log file when running Linux in XP