Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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Shoar
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Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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Hi all. I'm using Windows 7 Home X64 on VirtualBox 4.1.2. Host system is Windows Ultimate X32. Hardware is Gigabyte AM3 GA-MA770 Athlon II X4 630 2.8 GHz, 4Gb Ram (over 1Gb is set for guest system). All works fine but when I trying to update guest system using windows update, guest system completely hangs after some time. Virtualbox shows that it running. Below is screenshot of guest system window after I clicking and then chancelling close menu item.
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What I'm doing wrong?Thanks in advance.

Update: I'm noticied the same hang issue during installation of Visual Studio 2010 and also when VIsual Studio was running application in Debug mode (seems it was stopped on breakpoint. Not sure when exactly it happen because I was switched to the host system and when switched back, guest system was hanging).
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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Describe exactly how you installed the guest additions.
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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Perryg wrote:Describe exactly how you installed the guest additions.
I'm just using Devices -> Install Guest Additions menu item. It autoruns from virtual CD ROM and I selected something like 'Install Guest Adiitions' (there was only single choise)
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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Disable 3D in the guest settings and try again.
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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Perryg wrote:Disable 3D in the guest settings and try again.
It seems it already disabled but issue still occurs.
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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Post the guests log file (as an attachment)
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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It shows 4 logs. All of them placed to the attached archive.
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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Several issues you need to address.
1) extension pack not installed
2) guest additions not installed (in the guest)
3) free up some more memory on the host
4) while it is possible to run a 64bit guest on a 32 bit host if VT-x/AMD-v is present, it produced a big overhead.
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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Perryg wrote:Several issues you need to address.
1) extension pack not installed
2) guest additions not installed (in the guest)
3) free up some more memory on the host
4) while it is possible to run a 64bit guest on a 32 bit host if VT-x/AMD-v is present, it produced a big overhead.
Thanks for these suggestions. Just not sure why guest additions not installed because I was installing them 3 times.
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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Shoar wrote:Just not sure why guest additions not installed because I was installing them 3 times.
Immutable drive?
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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mpack wrote:
Shoar wrote:Just not sure why guest additions not installed because I was installing them 3 times.
Immutable drive?
Not sure what means 'immutable'. Virtual Box using virtual DVD ROM drive which contains guest additions installer.
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Re: Win 7 guest system hangs during update

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"Immutable" is an option you can set for drives. If you don't know the word then most likely you have not used the feature, which is described in the user manual.
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