Starting Windows Guest hangs entire Mac

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gkholman
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Joined: 24. Jun 2010, 19:39
Primary OS: Mac OS X other
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Guest OSses: Windows 10

Starting Windows Guest hangs entire Mac

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Today I shut down my Windows Guest and copied the .vdi file for backup purposes.

When I try now (four times!) to restart the Windows Guest, during the Windows spinning dots the entire Mac hangs requiring hard reboot.

I've attached VBox.log.1 for analysis.

Meanwhile, I'm going to try and boot with a .vdi from last year's backup.

Does anyone have any guidance they can share about this? Thank you for anything anyone can suggest.

. . . . . Ken
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Windows 10-2021-11-16-13-43-20.log.zip
VBox.log.1 (there are other logs VBox.log.2 and VBox.log.3 but the "Save" function is returning only VBox.log.1 so that all that I've included.
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gkholman
Posts: 5
Joined: 24. Jun 2010, 19:39
Primary OS: Mac OS X other
VBox Version: OSE other
Guest OSses: Windows 10

Re: Starting Windows Guest hangs entire Mac

Post by gkholman »

Update: I trashed this morning's .vdi and its copy and restored a .vdi from 15 months ago. It works like a charm.

I have no idea how the .vdi file was corrupted. I simply shut down the virtual machine and made a copy from inside Folder. Both files couldn't be used, each causing the Mac to hang requiring a cold reboot.

I've just restored 15 months of Windows updates and it looks like I'm back up and running.

No follow-up required. Perhaps the log file will be of interest to other readers.
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