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[Solved] Windows 7 freezes after a while

Posted: 14. Jan 2022, 14:08
by MInacio
I am a bit new on VMBox. I have a VHD from an old pc running Windows 7.
I have Windows 10 as a host. I have installed the Extension pack and have a folder connected to the VMBox which is allocated in an external drive.

I have the VMBox with the default settings. It runs smoothly and works fine until it freezes and restarts. Sometimes it takes longer to freeze, other times it does not even make it to the desktop.

Could someone help me fix this problem?

I attach the logs. After it froze, I terminated the VMBox.

Thank you

Re: Windows 7 freezes after a while

Posted: 14. Jan 2022, 14:42
by mpack
Try giving 2 CPU cores to the Win7 VM.

Increase graphics RAM to 128MB.

Update VirtualBox, then update the Extension Pack and the Guest Additions.

You have Hyper-v enabled. See HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM (Hyper-V is active).

Re: Windows 7 freezes after a while

Posted: 14. Jan 2022, 15:46
by MInacio
mpack thank you so much for your suggestions!

It has been working without any problems now!

Re: Windows 7 freezes after a while

Posted: 14. Jan 2022, 16:54
by mpack
Congratulations, I'm glad the suggestion worked. I'll mark the topic as solved.