Windows VM suddenly crashes after boot

[baoancnc]

Dear,

I know the first question people ask is "What did you change?" I swear I don't know (but in retrospect it looks like the answer is "I updated to 6.1.6") It was working a couple of weeks ago, and I fired it up last night, and it crashes.

I have Slackware Linux host, VirtualBox 6.0.20 and/or 6.1.6 , and a Windows XP guest. It boots fine in Safe Mode, but when I try to boot into regular WIndows, I briefly see my desktop, and then the VM crashes and the window disappears. Sometimes, I don't even get that far, and it crashes during the boot process.

VCPU0: Guru Meditation -8 (VERR_NO_MEMORY)

From what I've read on Google ("allocate more memory to the host"), the error doesn't make sense. The VM has 1GB of memory assigned to it, my host has 8GB of memory, and top says I have 4GB - 5GB free. So I don't understand why it would complain about needing more memory.

If anybody can give me a push towards getting this resolved, I would really apprecaite it.

Thanks!!!

[scottgus1]

Try it again, please, and let's see what the vbox.log says.

Start the guest from full normal shutdown, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the guest from within the guest OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the guest with the Power Off option set.

Right-click the guest in the main Virtualbox window's guest list, choose Show Log. Save the far left tab's log, zip it, and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.