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Every time I've installed a version of Windows on my VirtualBox in Windows 10, the installation would go through but when it came time to start windows for the first time it would just hang there never loading to the desktop. Is there a problem with VM's in Windows 10? It seems this has happened to me with a Vista guest and a XP guest so far.

I'm using Version 5.0.20 r106931

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Well I got the XP to boot to the desktop after a very long wait but it seems the reason why it wasn't booting to the desktop was because it's loading to slow. When I open task manager in the XP guest machine it's running at 75-100%. The CPU is off the charts and I don't have anything running inside the guest OS. Currently Taskmanager is running at about 72% and it's the only thing open in the Virtual Machine. Didn't do any updates or nothing to XP or anything.

I've attaching a log and a snapshot of my Host computer spec's.

I used to run this Virtual Machine no problem in Windows 7 but ever since I upgraded to Windows 10 it's been trouble just to get a simple VM machine to load. Getting Windows XP to load to the desktop with 1 cpu and 1 gb ram has been the closest to getting a usable machine to start up. Never had this problem before Windows 10 and the New VBox update.

Mind you I have a working Version of Windows 7 running as a guess in Hyper-V but because I can't use USB devices on that it the reason why I'm trying to get a VM on VBox. But VBox is so unuseable in this state.

Any suggestions?

MarkSinister wrote:I have a working Version of Windows 7 running as a guess in Hyper-V

Windows XP-2016-05-08-00-22-20.log wrote:

00:00:12.452607 HM: HMR3Init: Falling back to raw-mode: AMD-V is not available

Since you have Hyper-V enabled on your host, VirtualBox cannot use any hardware acceleration features and is falling back in software acceleration. Hyper-V permanently takes over VT-x and doesn't let anyone else use it. That is what makes your guest slow. If you want to run XP at full speed you need to disable Hyper-V.