Win 10 VM crashes system after upgrading openSUSE 15.3 to 15.4

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amkoepfer
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Win 10 VM crashes system after upgrading openSUSE 15.3 to 15.4

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Hello to the community!

After using VirtualBox for a long time (10 or 11 years) I now stumbled into a severe problem. I've upgraded the Dell Vostro Laptop of a colleague form openSUSE Leap 15.3 to openSUSE 15.4.
He was using Windows 10 Pro in a vm (VirtualBox 6.1.36) without problems under openSUSE 15.3. VirtualBox is installed from the VirtualBox repository not from the openSUSE repository.
With the upgrade of the OS, I upgraded VirtualBox to version 7.0.4. In the moment, when the vm is started, the whole system freezes with kernel panic. I've tried the versions 6.1.34, 6.1.36, 6.1.38 and 6.1.40 from the VirtualBox repository and also version 7.0.4 again from the openSUSE repository. The result is every time the same: the laptop freezes immediately.
The laptop model is DELL Vostro 5568 with 8GB of RAM.

Output from lshw:

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*-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 38
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 6.142.9
          serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
          slot: U3E1
          size: 3070MHz
          capacity: 3100MHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 100MHz
          capabilities: lm fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp md_clear flush_l1d arch_capabilities cpufreq
          configuration: cores=2 enabledcores=2 microcode=240 threads=4
Output from screenfetch:

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             .;ldkO0000Okdl;.                root@marsupilami
         .;d00xl:^''''''^:ok00d;.            OS: openSUSE 15.4
       .d00l'                'o00d.          Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default
     .d0K^'  Okxoc;:,.          ^O0d.        Uptime: 30m
    .OVVAK0kOKKKKKKKKKKOxo:,      lKO.       Packages: 3201
   ,0VVAKKKKKKKKKKKKK0P^,,,^dx:    ;00,      Shell: bash 4.4.23
  .OVVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKk'.oOPPb.'0k.   cKO.     Disk: 118G / 573G (22%)
  :KVAKKKKKKKKKKKKKK: kKx..dd lKd   'OK:     CPU: Intel Core i5-7200U @ 3.1GHz [50.0°C]
  lKlKKKKKKKKKOx0KKKd ^0KKKO' kKKc   lKl     GPU: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)
  lKlKKKKKKKKKK;.;oOKx,..^..;kKKK0.  lKl     RAM: 821MiB / 7842MiB
  :KAlKKKKKKKKK0o;...^cdxxOK0O/^^'  .0K:    
   kKAVKKKKKKKKKKKK0x;,,......,;od  lKP     
   '0KAVKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK00KKOo^  c00'     
    'kKAVOxddxkOO00000Okxoc;''   .dKV'      
      l0Ko.                    .c00l'       
       'l0Kk:.              .;xK0l'         
          'lkK0xc;:,,,,:;odO0kl'            
              '^:ldxkkkkxdl:^'              
The vm uses 4GB of RAM and 1 core.

I've even installed kernel 5.3.18 from openSUSE 15.3 again. The result was, that the system did not freeze completely. But the vm started and showed nothing, although I've been able to use the host system. The VirtualBox process was in zombie state then and remained until reboot.

Did someone encounter similar problems (in the past) or does someone has any idea what the reason is for this behavior?

Greetings from Hannover
Andreas
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