Windows Server 2012 freezes

[Paul2]

I have Windows Server 2012 installed as a guest. It (Windows, not VirtualBox) freezes frequently. I don't think I've ever gotten as much as a full hour of operation.

Frustrated, I finally threw away the entire machine & disk, rebuilt it, and reinstalled Win2012. Same problem.

I have five other Windows VM's, three with XP, one with 7, one with 8. They all work fine. (And none are running simultaneously with this one.)

Guest: Windows Server 2012 64 bit, 4 GB RAM.

Host: Windows 7 64 bit, 16 GB RAM. VirtualBox 4.2.4

Anyone have an idea what's wrong and what I can do about it? Maybe just wait for the next release...

[Perryg]

Post the guests log file (as an attachment)
See Online Users Manual for the location of the file.

[Paul2]

Is that the one the manual calls "release log file"? Here it is.

You can see at line 1129 where I reset the machine after it froze again, this time during a software installation. (The previous time was during Windows Update.)

I don't much understand this log though. Maybe someone else can tell me what happened.

[mpack]

Are all the VMs located on the same host drive? I ask because I'm seeing lots of disk errors in the log. Also, how much free space is left on that host drive?

[Paul2]

The host is an SSD with 256 GB, 160 GB free. The VMs are located on another (internal SATA) drive that has 600+ GB free.

[Paul2]

FWIW, there are no errors reported in the Windows event log, other than a couple posted on reboot saying that the system had shut down abnormally.

Really, is no one else having this problem? Or is no one else running Windows Server 2012 as a guest?

[brick2thabone]

I am having this same issue. It occurs during windows updat of svr2012. Have you found a fix or workaround?

[Perryg]

@Paul2.

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00:00:01.217885 NX - No-Execute Page Protection        = 0 (1)

AFAIK 2012 and 8 require NX enabled to operate properly This would have been set at creation, but not on an upgrade. Enable it (PAE/NX) in the guest and see if it works.

[brick2thabone]

I enabled PAE/NX and it seems to have fixed the issue. thanks so much!

[Dbroussa]

I too have seen this issue. I set up my servers with VT-X/AMD-V enabled, but with Nested Paging turned off. I also turned on PAE/NX and still got Server 2012 to freeze after less than an hour. I have tried turning PAE/NX off to see if that makes any difference.

VBox.log

Log from Server 1

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VBox.log

Log from Server 2

(77.6 KiB) Downloaded 7 times

[Dbroussa]

VBox SP2013-AD frozen.zip

LOg when the machine froze

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I just looked at an older log file from my server that was using PAE/NX that locked up and here it is as well...if that helps.