Passthrough does not work anymore in 2.1.0 => Fixed in SVN

[Oxmosys]

When I enable passthrough for one CD device, the guest operating system does not see any CD drive. If I type F12 at the VirtualBox "BIOS prompt" to tell it to boot CD instead of the Hard drive, it fails saying that no drive is detected. If I disable passthrough, everything start to work correctly again and the guest OS can read the content of the CD in my CD drive.

This feature worked perfectly yesterday with 2.0.4

[Harri]

Metoo. If I disable passthrough and restart Virtualbox, then the CD drive is visible in the guest (WinXP), but I still cannot access it. /var/log/kern.log says

:
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688238] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688245] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 64
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688256] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688258] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 65
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688268] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688270] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 66
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688274] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688276] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 67
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688280] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688282] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 68
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688286] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688288] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 69
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688292] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688294] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 70
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688298] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688300] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 71
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688305] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688307] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 64
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688311] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688313] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 65
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688317] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688321] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688325] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688330] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688334] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.688338] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
Dec 25 12:46:01 daffy kernel: [  503.703589] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] unaligned transfer
:

If I read the CD to create an iso using dd on Linux, and register the file as a CD drive, then it works, but of course this is just a workaround, and it doesn't match all needs.

Hardware is a Dell XPS M1330 with a Sata dvd drive. Kernel is 2.6.27.10 (amd64). Virtualbox 2.0.6 worked fine.

[woelfel]

Same here on OpenSuSE 11.1 with VirtualBox 2.1.0. Previous version of VirtualBox worked fine for me (on OpenSuSE 11.0). Here is some info from VBox.log that might be relevant:

00:00:08.720 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=00007f2760224000 w=640 h=480 bpp=0 cbLine=0x140
00:00:10.549 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#0: IDLE IMMEDIATE, CmdIf=0xef (-1 usec ago)
00:00:10.549 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#0: aborting current command
00:00:11.542 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.545 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.546 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.547 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.548 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.550 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.551 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.552 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.553 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.554 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.555 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x12 sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.556 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x12 sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.556 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x12 sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.557 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x12 sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:11.558 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x12 sense=0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER

[jjazz]

I am having this issue on Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64. I did a fresh install, never had previous versions. Log is almost identical to woelfel's so I will only post a single line to illustrate the difference:

00:00:08.884 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x5a sense=12 ASC=0x80 ASCQ=0x7f VERR_INVALID_POINTER

[Johannes Köster]

I have exactly the same problem with identical error messages on Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64.

[Wolfgang Ulmer]

Same here using:

• Ubuntu 8.10 (i686)
• Kernel: 2.6.27-9-generic
• Sun xVM VirtualBox Version 2.1.0

Using a bootable CD-ROM, I get the message in VBox.log:

00:00:04.414 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: CD-ROM passthrough cmd=0x28 sense=9 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 VERR_INVALID_POINTER
00:00:04.414 Guest Log: BIOS: CDROM boot failure code : 0003

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks for the report! Fixed in SVN.

[Oxmosys]

I confirm that it is fixed, thank you very much!