Can’t boot WinXP in VB with debugging enabled

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have the following setup:
– Host operating system: Windows 7 x64
– Guest operating system running on the latest VB (4.1.8): Windows XP x86

I want to use the guest operating system to debug a driver I’m writing. For this, I want to setup VirtualKD 2.6. I have performed these steps in the following order

1) Install VB
2) Setup Windows XP x86 SP3 + installed all currently available updates
3) On the host OS, I ran VirtualKDSetup.exe
4) Using a shared folder, copied vminstall.exe from the target folder to my guest OS.
5) On the guest OS, I ran vminstall.exe, used standard settings and restarted the guest OS
6) On the host OS, started vmmon64.exe
7) Tried to boot “Microsoft Windows XP Professional [VirtualKD] [debugger enabled]”

However, when I try to boot (i.e. step 7), the screen simply goes black and nothing happends (I waited for several minutes). Any ideas where I went wrong?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

OK, I guess I should learn to read…

From WinDbg:

Windows XP Kernel Version 2600 UP Free x86 compatible
Built by: 2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.111025-1629
Machine Name:
Kernel base = 0x804d7000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0x805540c0
System Uptime: not available
Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance)
*******************************************************************************
*                                                                             *
*   You are seeing this message because you pressed either                    *
*       CTRL+C (if you run kd.exe) or,                                        *
*       CTRL+BREAK (if you run WinDBG),                                       *
*   on your debugger machine's keyboard.                                      *
*                                                                             *
*                   THIS IS NOT A BUG OR A SYSTEM CRASH                       *
*                                                                             *
* If you did not intend to break into the debugger, press the "g" key, then   *
* press the "Enter" key now.  This message might immediately reappear.  If it *
* does, press "g" and "Enter" again.                                          *
*                                                                             *
*******************************************************************************

The solution was to press g followed by Enter which resumed the VM.

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