Solved: 100% CPU on moving XP Guest from Win10home intel 7th gen to Win11Home 11thGen

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VirtakBoxer
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Solved: 100% CPU on moving XP Guest from Win10home intel 7th gen to Win11Home 11thGen

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Good Day

Been successfully running a XP Pro SP3 guest VM on a Windows10 Home machine ( MSI laptop with a I7-7700) for 5+ years and previously on a older i5 5th gen on top of W7 Home for 4+ years

Trying to migrate the Guest VM to a new Windows11 Home Acer laptop (Acer with i5-11400H) but 100% CPU usage on all CPU cores assigned to VM, and random lockups.

I've done some searching, and have found reported issues with Hyper-V and a few other items, which I don't think apply to the home version of Windows 11

Question: Should I be able to run my Windows XP Pro SP3 guest on Windows 11 Home with a i5-11400H CPU? Or are my issues expected?


How I Migrated (and how I've done in the past on at least 5 machines)
  • Fully Shutdown XP VM Guest
    Ensured no pending snapshots in play for XP VM
    Shutdown Virtual box host software (version 6.1.42r155177)
    Copied VM folder (With Guest VHD & vbox files) to external drive
    Installed same version of Virtual box and Extensions on new machine (version 6.1.42r155177)
    Setup same matching VM pathing on new machine
    Copied VM files from External drive to new machine (same location on both machines)
    Started up Virtualbox admin
    Added in VHD files into Media Manger
    Added vbox in using machine/add option
    Tweaked VM guest setting to use Network card
    Start XP Guest VM and go into safe mode, which detects new devices, and then shutdown VM
    Start XP Guest which would come up clean
    Optional - Upgrade Virtual Box to latest version + Extensions
    Optional - Update the Virtual Box Addons


Additional Details
  • Initially tested with Virtual box 6.1.42 r 155177 and then with upgraded version 7.0.6 r 155176
    XP VM used to run some older financial & development software which I've lost the registration keys & install media for (and Doesn't run well on newer OS).
    Physical Touch pad buttons have broken on MSI laptop, so attempting to replace out the laptop
    This is my 3rd (maybe 4th) attempt to swap the laptop. Was able to easily migrate the XP Guest VM on these machines (100% working); but decided against keeping the laptops due to issues such as super Crappy Touch pad, No physical ethernet support, unstable wifi causing machine to constantly dump, horrid battery life
    Link to new laptop is www bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/acer-nitro-17-3-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i5-11400h-512gb-ssd-12gb-ram-gtx-1650-windows-11/15795307
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VirtakBoxer
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Re: 100% CPU on moving XP Guest from Win10home intel 7th gen to Win11Home 11thGen

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Update

Machine has been up about 15 Minutes, and looks to have hung (or extremal slow). Logs show activity up to about 12 machines, with the machine taking about 10 minutes to get to the desktop after logging in.

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Re: 100% CPU on moving XP Guest from Win10home intel 7th gen to Win11Home 11thGen

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VirtakBoxer
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Re: 100% CPU on moving XP Guest from Win10home intel 7th gen to Win11Home 11thGen

Post by VirtakBoxer »

Fixed.

Issue seems to be with Intel 11th Gen and maybe windows 11. Didn't want to waste any more time on trying to get Virtual box running on the machine (return window ended tomorrow), so skipped downgrading Windows10.

Returned: Acer Nitro 17.3" Gaming Laptop (Intel Core i5-11400H/512GB SSD/12GB RAM/GTX 1650/Windows 11)
Purchased: ASUS TUF Gaming A17 17.3" Gaming Laptop (AMD Ryzen 7 6800H/512GB SSD/16GB RAM/GeForce RTX 3050)

With the newly purchased AMD 6800, VM worked right out of the box (installed Virtual Box, Copied VM to machine, added to VM admin admin, and booted)

Note: The Acer Nitro seemed like a solid machine other than not being able to run Virtual Box Guests on it.

Hope this info helps someone else
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