Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this are welcome. I have a Windows 11 guest which I virtualized using Disk2VHD from a computer I am decomissioning. After I installed the guest additions and rebooted, the guest machine now freezes after login. It seems to be a really hard freeze - I let it run overnight and it never unfroze. The CPU Load for the VM is pinned at 100%.
I've assigned copious resources to the VM - 4 CPUs and 16 GB of RAM. The host machine is an i9-13900K w/ 64 GB RAM running Win 11. I've tried assigning more ram and cpus but that doesn't seem to help. Using VirtualBox 7.0.6 r155176.
Any ideas?
Windows 11 Guest hangs after login
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scottgus1
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Re: Windows 11 Guest hangs after login
Start the VM from full normal shutdown, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the VM from within the VM's OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the VM with the Power Off option set.
Right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox window's VM list, choose Show in Explorer/Finder/File Manager. In the "Logs" subfolder, zip the VM's "vbox.log", and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab. (Configure your host OS to show all extensions so you can find the "vbox.log", not "vbox.log.1", etc.)
Right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox window's VM list, choose Show in Explorer/Finder/File Manager. In the "Logs" subfolder, zip the VM's "vbox.log", and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab. (Configure your host OS to show all extensions so you can find the "vbox.log", not "vbox.log.1", etc.)