VBox 7.0.4, Manjaro host, Win11 guest freezes.

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j77h
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VBox 7.0.4, Manjaro host, Win11 guest freezes.

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When the freeze happens, the last line in the log says

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VMMDev: vmmDevHeartbeatFlatlinedTimer: Guest seems to be unresponsive. Last heartbeat received 4 seconds ago
and the Activity tab shows that the guest is still doing stuff.
The log is attached.

Only Reset or Power Off have any effect.

Sometimes the guest stays up for more than 30 minutes.
The freeze usually happens when my mouse is doing something in Windows, such as moving a window.
It happened many times in the System Update page while only moving the pointer.

I don't know if it was happening before the Vbox upgrade,
as I used this VM no more than once a week to do a 15 minute job,
which I can still do, with a bit of luck.
I stayed off-line and avoided upgrades.
 Edit: It has happened earlier; I zipped/saved the log folder 6 months ago;
'vmmDevHeartbeatFlatlinedTimer' happened 9 times in 2 days.
But I have a vague memory that it was solved by some VBox/EP/GA upgrade. 
The Vbox upgrade came with a Manjaro system upgrade.
I also updated the Extension Pack, and this guest's GA.

This week I bought Office 2021
(for some new work that I need to do),
and before installing it, applied all Windows11 upgrades.
(22H2 is not available to me yet.)

Before starting that, I zeroed and compacted the vdi, and made a snapshot.
(The first snapshot of this VM.)
It seemed to be running fine after that, but I didn't keep it on for long.

During upgrading the system, and installing Office, it froze frequently.
But it always restarted without any problem.

This morning I worked on it for more than 30 minutes, no problem.
Then I downloaded some language packs for Word,
and it last froze during download, or install, of a language pack.

I tend to blame Windows, until eventually the thought comes that it might be a VirtualBox problem. ;)
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j77h
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Re: VBox 7.0.4, Manjaro host, Win11 guest freezes.

Post by j77h »

It has happened earlier ... 6 months ago
... it was solved by some VBox/EP/GA upgrade.
And now it is solved by EP/GA downgrade to 6.1.40

Before the downgrade it seemed slow
and not very responsive to mouse/kbd input,
but now it runs fast and smooth.
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Re: VBox 7.0.4, Manjaro host, Win11 guest freezes.

Post by scottgus1 »

EP should always match versions with Virtualbox: you should bring the EP back to 7.0.4.

The 7.0 GAs have caused issues so far, and using 6.1.40's is a good workaround for now.
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