Guest locking up on a Fresh Host and Fresh Guest Install

[RobertE1997]

I fresh installed W10 on my HP ProBook G9 450 using an ISO direct from MIcrosoft. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softwar ... /windows10

Ran all the windows updates. Installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2019, and then VirtualBox.

Downloaded and added Debian 12 into VirtualBox. https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cu ... etinst.iso I left all defaults when it came to resources allocated.

I changed the display off timer to 1 minute on Debian guest to 1 minute, and auto suspend timer on Debian guest to 1.5 minutes.I changed display off timer on W10 host to 2 minutes, and sleep timer on W10 host to 3 minutes.

I then walked away and came back to a login prompt from windows, which then I was prompted for a login from the debian guest. Once I logged in on the guest, the guest was froze. I forced a power down for the guest.

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[RobertE1997]

For anybody that finds this post, the fix was simply to not use Debian 12.

I used a fresh host install Windows 10, then tried testing various combinations with VBox 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, and fresh guest installs of Debian 11 and 12. The combination I found to work was Debian 11 on VBox 7.0.


At first I tried just downgrading the kernel on D12 to 5.10.x(to match what ships with Debian 11), but that didn't work.

Not sure whos to blame, VirtualBox or Debian.

[multiOS]

The submitted VBox.log shows the following potential issues:

00:00:13.688042 VirtualBox VM 7.0.16 r162802 win.amd64 (Apr 12 2024 19:02:49) release log

00:00:13.805073 NumCPUs <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)

VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000001000000 (16 777 216, 16.0 MiB)

00:00:22.891746 VMMDev: Guest Log: vboxguest: host-version: 7.0.16r162802 0x8000000f
00:00:22.891776 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 6.0.0 r127566 '6.0.0'
00:00:22.891793 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Interface = 0x00010004 osType = 0x00053100 (Linux >= 2.6, 64-bit)
00:00:22.891852 VMMDev: Guest Additions capability report: (0x0 -> 0x0) seamless: no, hostWindowMapping: no, graphics: no
00:00:22.891888 VMMDev: vmmDevReqHandler_HeartbeatConfigure: No change (fHeartbeatActive=false)

1. Shortly after the release of VirtualBox 7.0.16 a significant networking problem was identified and a warning was issued by 'Oracle' on the Downloads page advising against installation. Users should avoid 7.0.16 and upgrade to a later version, currently the recently 7.0.18 release.

2. 64-bit OS VMs are not usually comfortable running with 1 CPU core. I would suggest increasing the allocation 2 Cores (i.e the equivalent of a Dual-Core CPU, which usually the minimum specification for most 'modern' OS.

3. If you are running a 'modern' Linux OS with a GUI (especially the more demanding Gnome or KDE Plasma options, or using a 'Hi-def screen) you should definitely consider maxing the VRAM setting to 128MB.

4. Version 6.0.0 of VirtualBox Guest Additions was probably provided by Debian's own repository when you installed the VM. This seems to happen with many Linux distributions, but that Version of Guest Additions is not fully compatible with VirtualBox Version 7.0 software as there were many design changes with the release of V.7.0.0. and th Guest Additions add-on. You should uninstall the old Guest Additions version and install the version provided with your current VirtualBox version.

[RobertE1997]

Hello,

I have updated VirtualBox to the latest 7.0.18, increased VRAM to 128MB, increased the CPU count to 2, and updated the VBox guest additions to the latest 7.0.18.

Issue still persists.


EDITED AND ADDED LATER:
And I left open the output from the command 'top', and I noticed that when the system isn't freezing. When I come back to my laptop, I have to login to the host, then click on my username on the Guest, and enter my password into the guest. So the keyboard and mouse is working. But once logged in to guest, the mouse and keyboard don't respond in the guest. However, I still see the output from 'top' being updated every second. If I spam CTRL+C, CTRL+V, CTRL+D, and some others, I get prompted a login prompt on my Guest. Then logging in to the guest and the system works just fine.. Until it happens again.

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