Critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine

[baffourt]

I have been using this VM for over 3 years and this morning, while on it, the Mac OS machine restarted due to a problem. The problem details that came after the restart was CPU panic.
Afterwards, the VM gives this error and will not continue execution.
I have attached the log file to be pointed in the right direction and also let me know if it's possible to recover the data in the .vdi file

[granada29]

You have overcommited the RAM in your VM.

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00:00:01.330794 Host RAM: 16384MB (16.0GB) total, 4129MB (4.0GB) available
00:00:01.435783   RamSize           <integer> = 0x0000000223200000 (9 179 234 304, 8 754 MB, 8 GB)

You need to close what ever host application is using the memory, and decrease the allocation you have made to the VM.

Also, you only have a single CPU allocated to the VM. Fow Win 10 you should increase this to 2.

[baffourt]

Great @granada29, that pointer is what was needed. the VM has started after restarting. on the CPU allocation, can I allocate like 4 or that will be over commitment.
Thank you

[mpack]

You can allocate 4GB if you first free up a lot of host RAM. Otherwise I advise cutting the VM allocation to 2GB.

Also your VirtualBox version is very old (5.1.30). Be aware that you can't be sure that newer OS's will run.

[baffourt]

Oh ok, I have freed up most of the Host RAM and I also need it in the VM to run the processes the VM should run, can I keep it at 6GB? the reported version is the log seems to be different from the version I am running. I have been running version 7.0 but I just updated it to what the image shows.
The other question about the cpus, can I allocate 4 or that will be over commitment.

[mpack]

can I keep it at 6GB?

Impossible to answer until you provide a log showing way more than 6GB RAM available for use.