Chrome Freezes

[Haemaker]

I am running VB 4.3.20r96996 on MacOS X 10.10 (Yosemite) with a Win8.1 64bit guest. I have the exact symptoms in this bug from 14 months ago: 12246 (can't link as I am a new user)

If I am running Chrome on the host (Version 39.0.2171.71 (64-bit)...for the record), the entire host OS freezes for long periods of time with short, intermittent, bursts of normal operations. If I quit Chrome, everything returns to normal, host and guests run fine (actually I am quite impressed with the performance).

I have the logs but there isn't anything interesting in them.

I saw from other posts to disable VT-x, but I can not do that with a 64bit guest. That advice was for an old version of VB anyway.

Any thoughts?

[loukingjr]

The problem with the Chrome browser running in OSX has nothing to do with VirtualBox. As a matter of fact, if you are using a Magic Mouse, Chrome will crash.

[loukingjr]

fwiw, for your Mac to freeze for a bit sounds like you are over extending the memory or the number of cores you have set for the Windows guest. I'm running a Windows 8.1 guest, watching videos in the current Chrome as I type in Firefox 34 and nothing is slowing down.

You should attach the vbox.log for your Windows guest.

[Haemaker]

RAM! That was it. Ran 2GB, dropped it to 512MB, and bam, works like a charm. Thanks!

[loukingjr]

RAM! That was it. Ran 2GB, dropped it to 512MB, and bam, works like a charm. Thanks!

Welcome but 512MB isn't very much for a Windows 8.1 64bit guest.