VirtualBox freezes during SW installation on guest

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Nas pam
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VirtualBox freezes during SW installation on guest

Post by Nas pam »

Hi,
I have an issue running setup exe file on guest. I have bought a new notebook, so I installed Ubuntu and VirtualBox. Than, I created a VM with Windows 10 and run Visual Studio 2019 setup EXE from the official location. After the UAC Window appears, the VirtualBox completly freezes. First, the guest freezes. Then, VirtualBox too. I can force quit it, but on next run of VirtualBox, VirtualBox freezes again. I have to restart the host.

Host:
HP EliteBook 640 G9, Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, 64-bit, 64 GB RAM
VirtualBox 6.1.38
Guest Additions 6.1.38
Guest: Windows 10 64-bit, clean installation.

Interresting notes:
I have a dualboot on host - Ubuntu and Windows 11. On Windows 11, this issue does not appear.
On the old notebook (HP ProBook 440 G7, Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, installed from the same source USB, 64-bit, 32 GB RAM), with the same version of VirtualBox, the same Windows 10 ISO file for guest..., the issue does not appear.

Any idea, what should i try to solve this issue?

Thank you in advance
Nas
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scottgus1
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Re: VirtualBox freezes during SW installation on guest

Post by scottgus1 »

'Tis an Ubuntu host and Windows guest, so moved from Linux Guests.
Nas pam
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Re: VirtualBox freezes during SW installation on guest

Post by Nas pam »

Thanks and sorry for wrong topic
mpack
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Re: VirtualBox freezes during SW installation on guest

Post by mpack »

Technically it's the wrong entire website, because the OP is using the Ubuntu fork of VirtualBox, rather than the real thing.

But... first thing I would try is increase the number of guest vCPUs to 2.
Nas pam
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Re: VirtualBox freezes during SW installation on guest

Post by Nas pam »

You are a genius, it seems your tip really solved it! Thank you.
mpack
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Re: VirtualBox freezes during SW installation on guest

Post by mpack »

Glad to help. I suspect that the VM didn't really lock up, people just aren't using to running on a single core any more - they don't expect the OS to get laggy when the one and only core is busy, which used to be a common experience.
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