ACPI doesnt work with vbox guest additions, which is a trunk blocker as well, IMO. Patch provided by aicom fixes the crash but introduces/leaves the following random crash:

err:(dll\win32\user32\windows\window.c:281) CreateWindowExA RegisterSystemControls
Boot took 33447053948 cycles!
Interrupts: 2302 System Calls: 10824 Context Switches: 1389

*** Fatal System Error: 0x0000007f
(0x00000008,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000)

Entered debugger on embedded INT3 at 0x0008:0x808dff98.
kdb:> bt
Eip:
<ntoskrnl.exe:dff99 (lib\rtl\i386\debug_asm.S:42 (RtlpBreakWithStatusInstruction))>
Frames:
<ntoskrnl.exe:a44f (ntoskrnl/ke/bug.c:1110 (KeBugCheckWithTf@24))>
<ntoskrnl.exe:269d (ntoskrnl/ke/i386/exp.c:92 (@KiRecordDr7@8))>
<ntoskrnl.exe:5f05 (ntoskrnl/ke/i386/traphdlr.c:522 (@KiTrap05Handler@4))>
<00000000>

2010/3/17 Aleksey Bragin <aleksey@reactos.org>
Very nasty.

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From: <cgutman@svn.reactos.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:02 AM
To: <ros-diffs@reactos.org>
Subject: [ros-diffs] [cgutman] 46237: - Add a hack to disable ACPI if VMware is detected - This hack circumvents the main blocker that prevents enabling ACPI in trunk

Author: cgutman
Date: Wed Mar 17 06:02:06 2010
New Revision: 46237

URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=46237&view=rev
Log:
- Add a hack to disable ACPI if VMware is detected
- This hack circumvents the main blocker that prevents enabling ACPI in trunk

Modified:
  trunk/reactos/drivers/bus/acpi/acpica/tables/tbutils.c

Modified: trunk/reactos/drivers/bus/acpi/acpica/tables/tbutils.c
URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/drivers/bus/acpi/acpica/tables/tbutils.c?rev=46237&r1=46236&r2=46237&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- trunk/reactos/drivers/bus/acpi/acpica/tables/tbutils.c [iso-8859-1] (original)
+++ trunk/reactos/drivers/bus/acpi/acpica/tables/tbutils.c [iso-8859-1] Wed Mar 17 06:02:06 2010
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@
   UINT32                  Length;
   UINT8                   *TableEntry;
   ACPI_STATUS             Status;
+    ACPI_TABLE_HEADER       LocalHeader;


   ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE (TbParseRootTable);
@@ -645,6 +646,14 @@
   }

   AcpiTbPrintTableHeader (Address, Table);
+
+    AcpiTbCleanupTableHeader (&LocalHeader, Table);
+    if (strstr(LocalHeader.AslCompilerId, "VMW"))
+    {
+        ACPI_ERROR ((AE_INFO, "VMware detected; ACPI has been disabled\n"));
+        AcpiOsUnmapMemory (Table, sizeof (ACPI_TABLE_HEADER));
+        return_ACPI_STATUS (AE_ERROR);
+    }

   /* Get the length of the full table, verify length and map entire table */




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