Windows 10 Guest Freezes

[riccorod]

First time poster and I believe i have followed all of the proper etiquette. I am having a heck of a time keeping a Windows 64 bit VM up for most of the day...eventually getting frozen screen. The VM isn't being pushed hard..just working in SSH sessions. Never had this problem on my Windows 7 VM and it is really killing my productivity. any guidance would be appreciated. I have really searched on this board up and down and haven't found an answer. I have attached all of the logs associated with the VM. Please let me know if i can provide anything else. I think it has something to do with the video settings.

[riccorod]

PC OS: Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
16GB

Virtual box Version 5.1.28 r117968 (Qt5.6.2)

Guest: Windows 10 (64-bit)
5749 MB Base Memory
Guest Additions 5.1.28 Installed

[mpack]

I don't want you to think you're being ignored, but I'm afraid I don't have much to say about your problem: I don't use SSH, and I don't have much use for Win10 in a VM either. I did wonder: if Win7 works why did you switch the VM to Win10? Can you go back?

Do you get lockups if you aren't using VRDP?

And I wasn't happy to see 5 logs either. I don't have time for 5 logs. Which one is most relevent?

[socratis]

First of all, I'm with mpack on this, I couldn't find a smoking gun. It seems like the "Jrod_VM_WIN10-2017-10-17-10-28-08" is the one that the guest ends abruptly, the last one.

The VM isn't being pushed hard..just working in SSH sessions.

Well, for a VM that is only hosting SSH sessions, you seem to have a lot of screen resizing going on.

00:00:10.238047 VBVA: InfoScreen: [0] @0,0 1745x941, line 0x1b44, BPP 32, flags 0x1
00:00:10.394016 VBVA: InfoScreen: [0] @0,0 1745x941, line 0x1b44, BPP 32, flags 0x1
00:00:29.425938 VBVA: InfoScreen: [0] @0,0 1744x940, line 0x1b40, BPP 32, flags 0x1
00:00:29.467292 VBVA: InfoScreen: [0] @0,0 1745x905, line 0x1b44, BPP 32, flags 0x1
00:14:02.017676 VBVA: InfoScreen: [0] @0,0 0x0, line 0x0, BPP 0, flags 0x9
00:58:13.188484 VBVA: InfoScreen: [0] @0,0 1745x905, line 0x1b44, BPP 32, flags 0x1
01:13:56.375816 VBVA: InfoScreen: [0] @0,0 0x0, line 0x0, BPP 0, flags 0x9
01:22:59.221535 VBVA: InfoScreen: [0] @0,0 1745x905, line 0x1b44, BPP 32, flags 0x1

and the same thing happens in all of the logs.

In addition, in "Jrod_VM_WIN10-2017-10-13-10-49-05" I see this:

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00:42:00.032816 NAT: Link down
00:42:05.033461 NAT: Link up
00:42:05.037865 NAT: DNS#0: 10.17.0.10
00:42:05.037903 NAT: DNS#1: 10.17.0.11
00:42:05.037914 NAT: DNS#2: 172.20.0.1
00:42:05.068527 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15
00:42:07.969939 NAT: Link down
00:42:12.970140 NAT: Link up
00:42:12.983337 NAT: DNS#0: 10.17.0.10
00:42:12.983429 NAT: DNS#1: 10.17.0.11
00:42:12.983462 NAT: DNS#2: 172.20.0.1
00:42:13.120859 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15
00:42:30.456462 NAT: Link down
00:42:35.456755 NAT: Link up
00:42:35.459723 NAT: DNS#0: 172.20.0.1
00:42:35.488845 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15
00:42:36.784924 NAT: Link down
00:42:41.785204 NAT: Link up
00:42:41.788299 NAT: DNS#0: 10.17.0.10
00:42:41.788335 NAT: DNS#1: 10.17.0.11
00:42:41.788344 NAT: DNS#2: 172.20.0.1
00:42:41.847561 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15
00:42:44.954334 NAT: Link down
00:42:49.954758 NAT: Link up
00:42:49.979873 NAT: DNS#0: 10.17.0.10
00:42:49.979904 NAT: DNS#1: 10.17.0.11
00:42:49.979911 NAT: DNS#2: 172.20.0.1
00:42:50.091988 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15
00:42:51.742584 NAT: Link down
00:42:56.743694 NAT: Link up
00:42:56.750487 NAT: DNS#0: 10.17.0.10
00:42:56.750545 NAT: DNS#1: 10.17.0.11
00:42:56.750561 NAT: DNS#2: 172.20.0.1
00:42:56.804923 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15

What's going on? The link goes down/up 6 times in less than a minute.

This doesn't seem like you're doing simple SSH sessions. And if you do, does that mean that you don't really care about the front end, the GUI? Which could mean that you could launch the VM either "Headless" or "Detachable"? Could you try that?

[riccorod]

I still have the windows 7 VM built and do use it on occasion. It has certs loaded that I need to access a partners network via vpn. I have the windows 10 VM built to do the same thing for another partners network (via VPN). I'm using windows 10 just because i had a copy...no real reason. I have not actually tested without using VRPD so that is definitely an option. I do have each VM built exactly the same. In terms of the logs...I was a bit confused there as when go to view logs there are 5 seperate ones.

[riccorod]

I appreciate both of your feedback. I switch back and forth between host and vm quite often so headless and detached mode really aren't that friendly for that activity. a buddy had indicated that there was some issue with video acceleration of sorts but i have been unable on my windows 10 host to find a setting