Guest Machine hangs

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grstatdoc
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Guest Machine hangs

Post by grstatdoc »

I'm not sure how to best describe the issue I am having....
I am running on a Lenovo Ideapad 15ALC7 with 12GB memory (9.85 usable) and Windows 11 Pro
My guest machine is running Windows 10 Home 32-bit with 4 GB memory.
After I start the virtual machine, it sometimes functions normally, but other times, the screen goes blank (teal in this case; the desktop and taskbar are not showing):
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The following attachments are from task manager:
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I'm not sure why the VM is using 4418.1 MB (unless there is some 322 MB used in overhead)
mpack
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Joined: 4. Sep 2008, 17:09
Primary OS: MS Windows 10
VBox Version: PUEL
Guest OSses: Mostly XP

Re: Guest Machine hangs

Post by mpack »

Please provide a VM log file. Make sure the VM is fully shut down, then right click it in the manager UI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.
grstatdoc
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Re: Guest Machine hangs

Post by grstatdoc »

After my VB machine hung, I took it to Best Buy and increased the memory from 12GB to 24GB, which has made a marked improvement in the machine running :D
Vboxlog.zip
Most recent log from the VB directory
(37.19 KiB) Downloaded 1 time
VBoxSVC0.zip
This a a log from today...
(1.51 KiB) Not downloaded yet
VBoxSVC.log5.zip
Log from Jan 6
(2.45 KiB) Not downloaded yet
grstatdoc
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Re: Guest Machine hangs

Post by grstatdoc »

A couple of more attachments...
VBoxSVC.log6.zip
Another file from 1/6
(2.24 KiB) Not downloaded yet
When I shut down the VM Tuesday and today, there was this error message
Upon shutdown
Upon shutdown
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The previous time it occurred, it went by too fast for me to catch and read it, but tonight I was able to get a screenshot of it.
I do intend to see if version 7.0 works better on this machine that it did earlier (I've been using 6.40 after version 7 didn't boot up properly....
grstatdoc
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Re: Guest Machine hangs

Post by grstatdoc »

Another go around with that error message on shutdown:
another try
another try
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BillG
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Primary OS: MS Windows 10
VBox Version: PUEL
Guest OSses: Windows 10,7 and earlier
Location: Sydney, Australia

Re: Guest Machine hangs

Post by BillG »

Your log contains these lines

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00:00:05.322475 HM: HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM: AMD-V is not available
00:00:05.377036 NEM:  info: Found optional import WinHvPlatform.dll!WHvQueryGpaRangeDirtyBitmap.
00:00:05.377132 NEM: WHvCapabilityCodeHypervisorPresent is TRUE, so this might work...
See this tutorial. viewtopic.php?t=99390
Bill
grstatdoc
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Re: Guest Machine hangs

Post by grstatdoc »

Bill: Thanks for your post!
I did have to turn off Memory Integrity to get the vbox machine to run without using so much system resources (213 MB vs. 3900 or higher MB) ... but there is a concern on my part about it being off (not that I'm going to be anywhere where some malicious process would inject code into memory -- I hope)
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