Windows 10 Virtual Machine on Mint 18.3

[Oz32]

Hi,
Few days ago I've installed Mint 18.3 on my laptop and VirtualBox with a Windows 0 virtual machine. Everything worked perfectly till yesterday, now everytime I run the virtual machine everything freeze and the only thing that I can do is shutdown the laptop with the power button. I've already tried to re-install VirtualBox and create the virtual machine with also different ISO files, but it always freezes in the same way.
Is there someone that can help me?
Thanks a lot.

Oz

[Perryg]

Post the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.

[socratis]

with a Windows 0 virtual machine

Bill Gates?
Is that you???

(sorry, couldn't resist )

[Oz32]

I checked the logs folder but the software has create only 3 empty log files, I guess because the virtual machine doesn't actually start, it might be?
Thanks for the replies.

Oz

[socratis]

Just shooting in the dark here, but can you please uninstall whatever VirtualBox version you have installed on your host and install the latest test build (≥120181) for 5.2.x?

See also viewtopic.php?f=7&t=86216 plus there were a couple of instances where the host was affected (freezing) due to Linux kernel updates (think Meltdown/Spectre).

BTW, before you uninstall the current version, what's the output of "VBoxManage -version"?

[Oz32]

Thanks for all the support,
It seems that the latest version of VirtualBox that I can install is 5.0.40, if I try to download and install more recent packages, I got this error from the installer:

Dependency is not satisfiable: libqt5core5a

Is there something else that I can try?

[socratis]

Yes. 1) satisfy the dependencies, or 2) get the generic version.

Come to think about it, what did you try to install? Everything in the Test Builds (except the RedHat ones) is a generic version. Actually there are only two; the 32- and the 64-bit ones. Which one did you try to get? Exactly please...

If you want to use the latest version for your host/guests, you should also consider doing the same for VirtualBox and the rest of your libraries, they're interconnected.