VM is always locking up some time after boot.
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VM is always locking up some time after boot.
Yesterday, I made a Windows 8.1 VM, and I wanted to use it for testing purposes. However, this afternoon, my VM always lock up sometime after boot. It has Guest Additions. I tried going to the development builds to see if it got fixed, but unfortunately, it still happens.
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Re: VM is always locking up some time after boot.
Please provide a VM log file. Make sure the VM is fully shut down, then right click it in the manager UI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.
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Re: VM is always locking up some time after boot.
There are two files, VBox.log and VBoxHardening.log. I will provide them both in case you need it.
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Re: VM is always locking up some time after boot.
FYI, I turned off 3D acceleration and I placed it to 1 core only. However, it is still happening.
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Re: VM is always locking up some time after boot.
I see you are using a test build of VirtualBox, can you tell me why? Regardless of the answer, you have a mismatched extension pack installed, which is not allowed.
Next problem, you don't have enough RAM to do a good job of running Win11 and Win8.1 at the same time on this PC. In particular you can't afford 2GB RAM for this VM unless you can find a way to free up host RAM. I would not try to run Win8.1 with less.
And worst of all, you have Hyper-v enabled.
Next problem, you don't have enough RAM to do a good job of running Win11 and Win8.1 at the same time on this PC. In particular you can't afford 2GB RAM for this VM unless you can find a way to free up host RAM. I would not try to run Win8.1 with less.
You should set the VM to 2 cores, as modern Windows will usually lag badly with only one.00:00:05.646839 Host RAM: 7991MB (7.8GB) total, 2138MB (2.0GB) available
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00:00:05.851865 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000080000000 (2 147 483 648, 2 048 MB)
00:00:05.852113 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000008000000 (134 217 728, 128 MB)
And worst of all, you have Hyper-v enabled.
HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM (Hyper-V is active)00:00:05.934631 NEM: NEMR3Init: Snail execution mode is active!
00:00:05.934631 NEM: Note! VirtualBox is not able to run at its full potential in this execution mode.
00:00:05.934631 NEM: To see VirtualBox run at max speed you need to disable all Windows features
00:00:05.934631 NEM: making use of Hyper-V. That is a moving target, so google how and carefully
00:00:05.934631 NEM: consider the consequences of disabling these features.
00:00:05.934631 NEM:
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Re: VM is always locking up some time after boot.
I am on Windows Home Single, so I don't have Hyper-v enabled, or any else. I have WSL on, so I turned it off (aw man)
Re: VM is always locking up some time after boot.
If you have WSL then under the hood Hyper-V is enabled.
WSL uses Hyper-V to work.
Disabling WSL will NOT disable Hyper-V!!!!
WSL uses Hyper-V to work.
Disabling WSL will NOT disable Hyper-V!!!!
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Re: VM is always locking up some time after boot.
How do I turn off Hyper-V then?
Re: VM is always locking up some time after boot.
Read mpack's post above.
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Re: VM is always locking up some time after boot.
I followed everything, and it seemed to make things worse. Now, the VM that used to be 2GB, is now on >2GB but <4GB, but now it's a little slow. Anyone explain?
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Re: VM is always locking up some time after boot.
Messing around with the exact numbers doesn't really change this.mpack wrote: you don't have enough RAM to do a good job of running Win11 and Win8.1 at the same time on this PC.
If you believe that you followed the steps in the FAQ then please provide a new (zipped) VBox.log file.