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A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine

Posted: 19. Jul 2020, 16:29
by NathSM
Hello! Host is a windows 7 (64bit) and i'm trying to run windows 10 (64bit) in the Virtual Machine 6.1.12 version.
When i turn it on it tries to boot and i get a black background with the blue windows logo, that almost immediately disappears
Then a critical error pops out.

I'll attach both Vboxlog and VboxHardening plus a capture of the error that pops out.

Please help :( thank you. :oops: :cry:

Re: A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine

Posted: 19. Jul 2020, 19:19
by mpack
The official minimum RAM requirement for Windows 10 (64bit) is 2GB, which your host can't afford. Plus you only have two cores and 4GB for two 64bit OS, so performance will be poor. Someone else is also complaining about a triple fault exception, so it's also possible that your Windows 10 installer (Windows.iso) is bad, though that rather depends on where it came from. If it was created by you using the Windows Media Creation tool then it should be ok.

Re: A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine

Posted: 19. Jul 2020, 19:31
by NathSM
mpack wrote:The official minimum RAM requirement for Windows 10 (64bit) is 2GB, which your host can't afford. Plus you only have two cores and 4GB for two 64bit OS, so performance will be poor. Someone else is also complaining about a triple fault exception, so it's also possible that your Windows 10 installer (Windows.iso) is bad, though that rather depends on where it came from. If it was created by you using the Windows Media Creation tool then it should be ok.
I used MediaCreationTool2004 from the Windows official page.
What should i do? I just wanna play a game, i think it could run on another Windows 7 but not in mine, since always pops an error i couldn't solve with almost anything on the internet.

Re: A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine

Posted: 20. Jul 2020, 18:11
by scottgus1
NathSM wrote:What should i do? I just wanna play a game
Don't run Virtualbox for this project. Dual-boot your PC with Windows 7 and 10. Your computer isn't strong enough to run Windows 7 and 10 and Virtualbox and a decent game all at the same time, as Mpack says. And games don't perform well in a virtual machine of any hypervisor, they run much better on the bare metal.

For your case, Windows 10 should be installed on a separate disk drive, so you can reboot and choose which operating system you want. Then install the game on 10.

Or since you think you could run the game on 7, just run it on the 7 you have installed now.

Re: A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine

Posted: 20. Jul 2020, 23:51
by NathSM
Thank you so much guys for your answers. I'll try to install W10 so i can play with my friends :D