Crash during Windows 10 install onHigh Sierra host

[cpt_holiday]

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to install Windows 10 on a MacBook Pro Mid 2010 running OSX High Sierra but it keeps crashing during the installation/setup. I've got the latest Windows 10 iso (Oct 2018) from the official website with a valid license and the latest version of VirtualBox (6.0.4).
The setup fails at every step of the out-of-the-box-experiece stuff yielding various OOBE errors but I can go on by clicking "skip". At some point, however, VirtualBox will crash and I never get to the end of the setup process.
I tried 64- and 32-bit versions, neither works, and the setup step where VB crashes seems to be rather random.

Does anyone have an idea? Will be much appreciated!

Cheers!

PS: Here's a typical error log:

VM_log.txt

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[andyp73]

There has been discussion of this in the thread W10 1809 (x64,2nd update) can't pass OOBE Setup that includes some potential workarounds and setting changes that might help.

-Andy.

[cpt_holiday]

Thank you Andy!

I finally ended up installing 1803 instead of 1809 which is not optimal but seems to be working okay for now.

[socratis]

I don't know why I never got that error, no matter how many installations of Win10 I've done... I just tried a brand new installation with "Win10_1809Oct_English_x64.iso". The changes that I made from the default template are:

• RAM: 3072 MB
• CPUs: 2
• PAE/NX: Enabled
• 2D/3D acceleration: Enabled
• VRAM: 256 MB
• SATA: Enable Host I/O Cache

Here's my .vbox file if anyone is interested. Compare it with yours...

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.15-macosx">
  <Machine uuid="{82960b87-7a11-4ad7-a87c-2cda1a6c846e}" name="Win10-1809" OSType="Windows10_64" snapshotFolder="Snapshots" lastStateChange="2019-02-18T20:32:42Z">
    <MediaRegistry>
      <HardDisks>
        <HardDisk uuid="{187b3047-cb14-4b40-847f-9689472279f3}" location="Win10-1809.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>
      </HardDisks>
      <DVDImages>
        <Image uuid="{ed16289e-6e55-437b-8081-a85fa06ebca9}" location="/Volumes/SGK-750-VB/___LiveDVDs/Win10_1809Oct_English_x64.iso"/>
      </DVDImages>
    </MediaRegistry>
    <ExtraData>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="PowerOff"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastNormalWindowPosition" value="0,45,1024,789"/>
    </ExtraData>
    <Hardware>
      <CPU count="2">
        <PAE enabled="true"/>
        <LongMode enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="true"/>
      </CPU>
      <Memory RAMSize="3072"/>
      <HID Pointing="USBTablet"/>
      <Paravirt provider="Default"/>
      <Boot>
        <Order position="1" device="DVD"/>
        <Order position="2" device="HardDisk"/>
        <Order position="3" device="None"/>
        <Order position="4" device="None"/>
      </Boot>
      <Display controller="VBoxSVGA" VRAMSize="256" accelerate3D="true" accelerate2DVideo="true"/>
      <VideoCapture screens="1" file="." fps="25"/>
      <RemoteDisplay enabled="false"/>
      <BIOS>
        <IOAPIC enabled="true"/>
      </BIOS>
      <USB>
        <Controllers>
          <Controller name="XHCI" type="XHCI"/>
        </Controllers>
      </USB>
      <Network>
        <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027175008" cable="true" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
            <NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
          </DisabledModes>
          <HostOnlyInterface name="vboxnet0"/>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="1" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027C3B080" cable="true" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
          </DisabledModes>
          <InternalNetwork name="VBoxIntNetwork"/>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="2" enabled="true" MACAddress="08002725D2D8" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
          </DisabledModes>
          <NATNetwork name="VBoxNATservice"/>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="3" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027BD83DD" type="82540EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
            <NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
          </DisabledModes>
          <BridgedInterface name="en0: Wi-Fi (AirPort)"/>
        </Adapter>
      </Network>
      <AudioAdapter controller="HDA" driver="CoreAudio" enabled="true" enabledIn="false"/>
      <RTC localOrUTC="UTC"/>
      <Clipboard mode="Bidirectional"/>
      <GuestProperties>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="en_US" timestamp="1550521897790786000" flags=""/>
      </GuestProperties>
    </Hardware>
    <StorageControllers>
      <StorageController name="SATA" type="AHCI" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true" IDE0MasterEmulationPort="0" IDE0SlaveEmulationPort="1" IDE1MasterEmulationPort="2" IDE1SlaveEmulationPort="3">
        <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
          <Image uuid="{187b3047-cb14-4b40-847f-9689472279f3}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
        <AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="1" device="0">
          <Image uuid="{ed16289e-6e55-437b-8081-a85fa06ebca9}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
      </StorageController>
    </StorageControllers>
  </Machine>
</VirtualBox>