Windows 2000 racing condition issue during setup

[marcantoinegodde]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to setup a Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) guest on my MacBook Pro M2. I am very likely facing the racing condition bug during setup as mentioned in the VirtualBox documentation.

As far as I understand the issue, it seems that I should add some sort of latency on my IDE drive. I also found reference to that in an old VMWare documentation.

Indeed, during the installation of Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC), the VM reboots and loops back to the Regional Settings screen. I can attest that some of my installations finished successfully but those must be random events then.

Is there any way to fix this in UTM? I understand it might be a QEMU problem but is it possible to fix it in QEMU then?

Thanks :)

PS: the fix -cpu qemu32,level=1 isn't useful there as I don't get any BSOD.