Can we have some form of Windows 10 support please?
Here's the thing. I just installed Windows 10 x64 TP on VB, using settings slightly adjusted from the default configuration for Windows 8.1 guests. Increased the RAM to 4GB, enabled EFI, gave it 2 CPU's, enabled PAE/NX, disabled the FDD, enabled 2D & 3D acceleration. That's it. Then, I 'inserted' the ISO and installed it. Then the problems started. At the very end of the installation, the guest froze completely. No mouse movement even. I guess the guest wasn't able to signal a restart or something, because I think the installation had finished. So I rebooted the guest myself.
Windows 10 boots up. I log in, and all seems fine. Then, as always, the first thing I do is install the guest additions. So I did. I let it install for a bit, and the screen goes blank. This is normal, presumably to detect some devices. But... It stays blank. Completely. Forever. The guest remained completely responsive. So I thought I'd focus the guest and hit Enter. This should press the finish button in the installer and do a graceful reboot. And so it did.
But then, after the animating boot logo, Windows does start, but again with a completely blank screen. Always.
I tried safe mode, but safe mode is "very unfinished" in Windows 10, making it unusable for further diagnosing.
Any advice/help? Should I wait for the VB team to deal with this?
Finally, some details:
Host:
- Windows 7 x64 SP1 fully up-to-date
- Gigabyte Z87X-OC mainboard (UEFI based, latest stable firmware version installed)
- Intel Core i7-4770K (virtualization options all enabled in the UEFI)
- 16GB RAM
- Samsung 256GB SSD (VMs are on this one as well)
- VirtualBox 4.3.10
- Dual Geforce GTX760 in SLI, 3 FHD monitors, driver 344.75
Guest:
- Windows 10 TP x64 (downloaded today)
- 2 CPU's
- 4GB RAM
- Boot order: harddisk -> CD
- Chipset: PIIX3
- Pointing device: USB Tablet
- Extended features: I/O APIC, EFI
- PAE/NX enabled, VTx/AMD-V enabled, Nested paging enabled
- 128MB video memeory, 1 monitor, 2D & 3D acceleration enabled
- 25GB harddisk, type: AHCI, Host I/O cache disabled, SSD checkbox ticked, attached to SATA port 0
- Audio enabled, driver: Windows DirectSound, controller: Intel HD Audio
- Network has 1 adapter: attached to NAT, adapter: Intel PRO/1000MT
- Serial ports disabled
- USB enabled, EHCI controller enabled, no device filters
- Shared folders: none
Windows 10 support?
Windows 10 support?
I'm probably running the latest everything. Yolo.
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Re: Windows 10 support?
I think we have enough Win10-as-guest topics already. And off topic in this forum anyway.
Also, even those with support contracts should not expect Win10 support until it is much closer to being released.
Also, even those with support contracts should not expect Win10 support until it is much closer to being released.