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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: (89.38 KiB) Downloaded 41 times

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.

Thank you Andy!

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

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>

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