Win XP guest freezes after welcome screen
Posted: 23. Jun 2017, 00:36
Hello everybody !
My setup is :
- VBox version = 5.1.8
- Host = Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
- Guest = Windows XP Pro SP3 32 bit
For more than one year it has been working absolutely fine, but I don't use the VM very often and lately the host has undergone many updates without me checking on the VM operability.
Now I discover that my VM crashes on start. I do the following :
- I reinstall VBox "on top of the existing" and take this opportunity to upgrade to version 5.1.22, complete with bells and whistles
- At this stage VBox starts OK
- the guest boots OK, I obtain the sequence of screens up to "Welcome", the XP desktop appears (my personalized wallpaper) and... everything hangs at this point
- No bars, no icons, just that wallpaper looking at me
- Stopping the guest by "Shutdown signal" produces no result other than the "End Program - explorer.exe" box, which itself is inoperative ("End now" produces no result)
- Only way of stopping the guest is by "Power off".
Is there a good soul who could explain to me what is happening ?
I had a sudden inspiration remembering that recently I had swapped the host machine's virtual memory from my system disk (an SSD) to the data disk, for a longer life of the SSD. So I have just tried to reinstate the old setup, with some paging file capacity in the system disk : to no avail !
So the problem remains and I would be very very grateful for a hint of assistance.
Thanks for your attention !
My setup is :
- VBox version = 5.1.8
- Host = Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
- Guest = Windows XP Pro SP3 32 bit
For more than one year it has been working absolutely fine, but I don't use the VM very often and lately the host has undergone many updates without me checking on the VM operability.
Now I discover that my VM crashes on start. I do the following :
- I reinstall VBox "on top of the existing" and take this opportunity to upgrade to version 5.1.22, complete with bells and whistles
- At this stage VBox starts OK
- the guest boots OK, I obtain the sequence of screens up to "Welcome", the XP desktop appears (my personalized wallpaper) and... everything hangs at this point
- No bars, no icons, just that wallpaper looking at me
- Stopping the guest by "Shutdown signal" produces no result other than the "End Program - explorer.exe" box, which itself is inoperative ("End now" produces no result)
- Only way of stopping the guest is by "Power off".
Is there a good soul who could explain to me what is happening ?
I had a sudden inspiration remembering that recently I had swapped the host machine's virtual memory from my system disk (an SSD) to the data disk, for a longer life of the SSD. So I have just tried to reinstate the old setup, with some paging file capacity in the system disk : to no avail !
So the problem remains and I would be very very grateful for a hint of assistance.
Thanks for your attention !