macOS guest runs fullscreen but hangs in window

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jmorrison
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macOS guest runs fullscreen but hangs in window

Post by jmorrison »

I have a macOS Sierra guest booting and running relatively well in VirtualBox 5.1.28/Windows 7

The problem is that when it's running in a window, the guest hangs, and can even lock up the Virtualbox manager.
This happens after a few minutes of normal usage - switching between windows, but also just leaving the guest alone and not typing/moving mouse.

When I ran in full screen mode, it ran overnight without any problems.

Noticed this in the logs:

ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005) aIID={ee35adb0-4748-3e12-e7fd-5aad957bba0f} aComponent={MouseWrap} aText={Could not send the mouse event to the virtual mouse (VERR_PDM_NO_QUEUE_ITEMS)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0

already aware that this is not supported - looking for useful comments only thanks
socratis
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Re: macOS guest runs fullscreen but hangs in window

Post by socratis »

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