Windows Guest Intermitent Shutdowns

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baffourt
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Windows Guest Intermitent Shutdowns

Post by baffourt »

I have a problem with intermitent shutdowns of virtualbox. This started like a week ago and I don't seem to understand what may be happening.
I am attaching the VBox log to help. Any pointers are welcome
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scottgus1
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Re: Windows Guest Intermitent Shutdowns

Post by scottgus1 »

Memory is slightly too tight:
00:00:01.632522 Host RAM: 16384MB (16.0GB) total, 7821MB (7.6GB) available
00:00:01.807582 RamSize <integer> = 0x00000001f4000000 (8 388 608 000, 8 000 MB, 7.8 GB)
00:00:01.807852 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000010000000 (268 435 456, 256 MB)
There are two of these:
01:12:47.439311 Resuming VM execution, reason 'host resume'
Was your Mac suspending during the run of this VM?

This log is of a run of the VM that did not shut down, nor does it show any failure in Virtualbox or the the VM's OS. Did any troubles happen during this run of this VM?
baffourt
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Re: Windows Guest Intermitent Shutdowns

Post by baffourt »

scottgus1 wrote:Memory is slightly too tight:
00:00:01.632522 Host RAM: 16384MB (16.0GB) total, 7821MB (7.6GB) available
00:00:01.807582 RamSize <integer> = 0x00000001f4000000 (8 388 608 000, 8 000 MB, 7.8 GB)
00:00:01.807852 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000010000000 (268 435 456, 256 MB)
Thank you for the response, do you suggest I reduce the guest memory?
scottgus1 wrote: There are two of these:
01:12:47.439311 Resuming VM execution, reason 'host resume'
Was your Mac suspending during the run of this VM?
I faced these challenges mostly when the Mac was idle, can I add the application crash report from Mac here?
I did post a discussion as well on the apple forum here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252594996
scottgus1 wrote: This log is of a run of the VM that did not shut down, nor does it show any failure in Virtualbox or the the VM's OS. Did any troubles happen during this run of this VM?
I thought I was attaching the appropriate one, will resend the log when the problem reoccur. Thank you for your time
scottgus1
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Re: Windows Guest Intermitent Shutdowns

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baffourt wrote:do you suggest I reduce the guest memory?
Either that or be sure the host doesn't have a lot of heavy programs running on it.
baffourt wrote:can I add the application crash report from Mac here?
Sure, in a zip file, please. The Mac gurus (not me :D ) might be able to use it.
baffourt wrote:will resend the log when the problem reoccur.
Sounds like a plan!
baffourt
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Re: Windows Guest Intermitent Shutdowns

Post by baffourt »

I have attached the application crash report from the host machine

I also noticed I am sometimes able to produce this behaviour by idling on the machine for it to sleep, when waking up, it may happen.
Sometimes it wakes up ok and then when i switch to the host without waiting for sometime then VB will crash.

I did reduce guest memory to 5GB but the problem persisted os I increased it again

The host is not running anything apart from the firefox web browser with about 10 open tabs.


Also if the guest stays on for long periods I notice a lot of repeating keys.
This is the VB log file

I hope these logs help me get this pain out
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DevMac-2021-04-14-13-28-17.log.zip
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AppleLog.log.zip
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