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PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA in Windows 7 x64.

Host environment

  • Operating system: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26058.1000 (Dev Channel)
  • OS/kernel version: 10.0.26058.1000
  • Architecture: x86-64
  • QEMU flavor: qemu-system-x86_64
  • QEMU version: 8.2.50 (v8.2.0-1947-ge1007b6b-dirty)
  • QEMU command line: qemu-system-x86_64.exe -cpu Haswell-v2 -cdrom "D:\ISOs\Windows-7-x64.iso" -drive file="D:\VMs\Windows 7\hdd.qcow2",format=qcow2,id=hd0 -m size=8G,maxmem=12G -smp cpus=2,cores=2

Emulated/Virtualized environment

  • Operating system: Windows 7
  • OS/kernel version: NET 6.1
  • Architecture: x86-64

Description of problem

When trying to install Windows 7, it always crashes with PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. This also impacts Windows 8.1, but crashes when it tries to start up the installation disc.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Create A VM with the Windows 7 installation disc inside the cdrom.
  2. Go through the installation
  3. At some point, it will pull a blue screen with a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. (around expanding windows files or completing installation)

Additional information

It looks like this bsod is relating to some non-canonical (illegal) virtual address being referenced. (It's just my guess based on the stop code) image

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