Hello,
I installed Monterey earlier and it was extremely slow and eventually freezes. I decided to use 4 cpus instead of 2 but now the install freezes at "1 minute remaining". I tried multiple times but no luck. Can I please get some help? Thanks!
VM Monterey install freezes when I use more than 2 cpus
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Re: VM Monterey install freezes when I use more than 2 cpus
Please post a session log. This will show the VM settings. Monterey will run under VirtulBox, but there are a couple of quirks in getting it to work.
Re: VM Monterey install freezes when I use more than 2 cpus
I'm trying the install again. It has 12 minutes left but here is the log so far.
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Re: VM Monterey install freezes when I use more than 2 cpus
So far the last line of the log says "TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a" then some numbers. Never saw code say it was giving up. Had a good laugh.
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Re: VM Monterey install freezes when I use more than 2 cpus
Increase videoram to 128MB. You have only assigned 16MB which is not enough.
Decrease CPU count to 2 - you can always increase it after the install is complete.
See this previous post: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=107564&p=526418&hi ... de#p526418
This shows the extradata settings I am using for Big Sur and Monterey. To apply these settings to your configuration (VM name) use:
Decrease CPU count to 2 - you can always increase it after the install is complete.
See this previous post: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=107564&p=526418&hi ... de#p526418
This shows the extradata settings I am using for Big Sur and Monterey. To apply these settings to your configuration (VM name) use:
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vboxmanage setextradata "VM name" "<setting>" "<value>"
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Re: VM Monterey install freezes when I use more than 2 cpus
It means your host is really slow for some reason, particularly the disk drive. Be careful with resource usage and whatever else you have running beside the VM.JJones wrote:So far the last line of the log says "TM: Giving up catch-up attempt at a" then some numbers.
For example, on a 6 core host I would not be assigning 4 cores to guest code. Not that VirtualBox is host code, not guest code.
Re: VM Monterey install freezes when I use more than 2 cpus
Thanks for the responses! I'm going to go back to 2 cpus suggested by granada29. Hopefully I can get it more responsive soon.