Windows 10 guest hangs during installatiion

[steve_j]

Hi,

I have a Solaris 11 host, and am trying to install the latest Windows 10 preview. On boot from the W10 ISO, it gets as far as the initial W10 screen with the angled 4-pane blue window, but never goes any further (even after hours). I'd appreciate help or ideas.

System: Dell Precision 390, 3GB RAM, running Solaris 11.3 in 64-bit.
Virtualbox 4.3.28 r100309, with extension package installed.
Guest: latest Windows 10 64-bit technical preview (x64_EN-GB_10041)

I've tried allocating anything from 1 to 2GB for the guest, and screen memory from 16MB to 128MB, no change. The last message in the log (which is attached) is:
00:00:06.759448 UIFrameBufferQImage::resizeEvent: Resizing to FALLBACK buffer due to format is invalid..

Thanks

Steve

[mbem]

Hi,

I had the same issue with a VM on windows, installing Windows 10. Try selecting Version "Windows 8.1 64" in the drop down at the beginning. Choosing "Other Windows 64" caused the problem for me.

regards

[mpack]

If you look at his log you'll see that he already selected the Win10-64bit template, which is the correct template. It is not necessary to use the Win8.1 template now that a Win10 template has been created.

The actual problem here is most likely caused by an astonishing 330% memory over-commitment. :-

00:00:01.522130 Host RAM: 3053MB total, 463MB available
...
00:00:01.725274 RamSize <integer> = 0x000000005dc00000 (1 572 864 000, 1 500 MB)
00:00:01.726148 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000002000000 (33 554 432, 32 MB)