Windows starts and completely freezes after a few minutes

[steppnav]

Lenovo 3000 N200
Ubuntu latest
Virtualbox - latest NON open source

I fought to the point where I can start get Windows XP Pro to start in other than the safe mode. I still don't have the networking working, I turned off all the NIC's in the hardware profile. Now it comes up. But after a few minutes, it locks up. I verified it is a real lockup by watching the task manager.

Any thoughts? Probably a Windows problem, but I can ask.

[Perryg]

Not enough information to be able to help.
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[steppnav]

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* Please provide host and guest memory.
* What are the VBox settings (all of them) for the guest?
* What (if any) error messages are you getting?

Ubuntu 9.04
Sun VirtualBox 3.0.2 r49928

Guest allotted 350 Meg out of 1 gig memory
ACPI enabled
IO APIC Enabled
Display 12 MB
Hard disk .vdi file
PIIX4
Audio off

Before bringing VB up:

top - 19:42:48 up 36 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.17, 0.24, 0.17
Tasks: 134 total,   3 running, 131 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  0.7%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  :  4.8%us,  3.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 91.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1017404k total,   603052k used,   414352k free,    16444k buffers
Swap:   979924k total,        0k used,   979924k free,   259560k cached

After VB started, before guest started:

top - 19:47:06 up 41 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.20, 0.17
Tasks: 137 total,   1 running, 136 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  1.3%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  :  5.4%us,  2.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 92.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1017404k total,   623132k used,   394272k free,    16944k buffers
Swap:   979924k total,        0k used,   979924k free,   260624k cached

Guest Windows started and locked after a couple of minutes:

top - 19:54:03 up 48 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.11, 0.68, 0.37
Tasks: 138 total,   2 running, 136 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  0.0%us, 75.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 24.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  :  3.3%us,  2.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1017404k total,   995132k used,    22272k free,    19188k buffers
Swap:   979924k total,     8736k used,   971188k free,   204564k cached

At this point windows guest screen is displayed, but the guest is completely unresponsive. There are no error messages.

VBOX Settings:
Version 3.0.2 r49928
Guest allotted 350 Meg out of 1 gig memory
ACPI enabled
IO APIC Enabled
Display 12 MB
Hard disk .vdi file
PIIX4
Audio off
Network card (disabled) PCnet-FAST III (Am79C93)
No Serial Ports
USB disabled.

[Perryg]

Turn your Network back on and this time try to start the Windows guest with 256 Meg of ram.
Also is this a new install or a VM that you got from somewhere?