Debian 10 host/ windows XP guest - crashing when MS Access launched

[merriman]

Vbox stable until I launch MS Access in guest and then aborts.
Any help would be very gratefully received - log attached.

TIA - Merriman

[Smackey's dad]

I would try upgrading Guest Additions as you are running quite an old version

Guest Additions information report: Version 4.3.36 r105129 '4.3.36'

I would also check Windows log, provide more CPU/Memory to Windows to see if it helps.

Since you are running such an older version of Guest Additions, I assume this has been working for a while until now? If you have an older copy of the VM image, I would try to see if this issue exists there. May provide clues as to what changed between then and now.

[mpack]

Given the title of the VM: "winnew20200611", I would guess this VM has existed since June. Possibly imported from an OVA (otherwise why the ancient GAs?).

The memory map seems a bit off. 3.9GB seems too much for XP on a host which only has 4.7GB free. 2GB is probably enough.

[Smackey's dad]

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The memory map seems a bit off. 3.9GB seems too much for XP on a host which only has 4.7GB free. 2GB is probably enough.

I would also check the Host syslog. Perhaps Linux is running out of memory due to the large allocation for the VM and killing the VM process. I second that suggestion to reduce memory.

[merriman]

Many thanks for the suggestions - I have decreased the memory available, and it appears reasonably stable now.
If it starts crashing again, I will update the Guest Additions.
Fingers crossed, and thanks to all once again.