Hi everyone,
Its impossible for me to use my Windows 7 guest because every 5-70 seconds it will freeze up in a very strange way. During the freeze I can still move the mouse, and click on some things, but others are completely frozen (like if I try to right click on the desktop and get the right click context menu, it will half fade in and freeze).
Weird thing is, the freezes don't last. After a few seconds Windows (the Guest Windows) will emit a Ding Sound and everything will sort of play catch-up (windows will appear and the clicks will finally register).
I'm at a loss here, I can't find any open support tickets describing this problem. I've attached a log with the Guest running for about 2min; one of the freezes occurred about 10 seconds before shutdown.
Host: Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (MSDN ISO), GA-EP45-UD3R F13f BIOS (Visualization Options enabled, SATA Set to AHCI), Intel Q9550, 8GB RAM, Nvidia Fermi Video, Atheros AR938x Wireless, Sound Blaster Xfi PCIe, All latest drivers/Windows Updates, VirtualBox 4.0.10.
Guest: Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (MSDN ISO), Latest guest additions/Windows Updates:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" version="1.11-windows">
<Machine uuid="{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}" name="Windows 7 Professional SP1 (64 bit)" OSType="Windows7_64" snapshotFolder="Snapshots">
<MediaRegistry>
<HardDisks>
<HardDisk uuid="{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}" location="20GB.vhd" format="VHD" type="Normal"/>
</HardDisks>
</MediaRegistry>
<Hardware version="2">
<CPU count="2" hotplug="false">
<HardwareVirtEx enabled="true" exclusive="false"/>
<HardwareVirtExNestedPaging enabled="true"/>
<HardwareVirtExVPID enabled="true"/>
<PAE enabled="true"/>
<HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="true"/>
<HardwareVirtForce enabled="false"/>
</CPU>
<Memory RAMSize="3072" PageFusion="false"/>
<HID Pointing="USBTablet" Keyboard="PS2Keyboard"/>
<HPET enabled="false"/>
<Chipset type="ICH9"/>
<Boot>
<Order position="1" device="DVD"/>
<Order position="2" device="HardDisk"/>
</Boot>
<Display VRAMSize="128" monitorCount="1" accelerate3D="true" accelerate2DVideo="true"/>
<BIOS>
<ACPI enabled="true"/>
<IOAPIC enabled="true"/>
<BootMenu mode="MessageAndMenu"/>
<TimeOffset value="0"/>
<PXEDebug enabled="false"/>
</BIOS>
<USBController enabled="true" enabledEhci="false"/>
<Network>
<Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="XXXXXXXXXXXX" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
<NAT>
<DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
<Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
</NAT>
</Adapter>
</Network>
<UART>
<Port slot="0" enabled="false" IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4" hostMode="Disconnected"/>
<Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x2f8" IRQ="3" hostMode="Disconnected"/>
</UART>
<LPT>
<Port slot="0" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="4"/>
<Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="4"/>
</LPT>
<AudioAdapter controller="HDA" driver="DirectSound" enabled="true"/>
<RTC localOrUTC="local"/>
<SharedFolders/>
<Clipboard mode="Disabled"/>
<IO>
<IoCache enabled="true" size="5"/>
<BandwidthGroups/>
</IO>
<Guest memoryBalloonSize="0"/>
<GuestProperties/>
</Hardware>
<StorageControllers>
<StorageController name="SATA Controller" type="AHCI" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="false" Bootable="true" IDE0MasterEmulationPort="0" IDE0SlaveEmulationPort="1" IDE1MasterEmulationPort="2" IDE1SlaveEmulationPort="3">
<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0">
<Image uuid="{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}"/>
</AttachedDevice>
<AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" port="1" device="0"/>
</StorageController>
</StorageControllers>
</Machine>
</VirtualBox>
-Quad
P.S. I've also recently re-formatted In trying to fix this problem. My Host system runs perfectly (games and all) except for some weird DPC Latency issues related to having 'Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)' on in my BIOS.