That restores the VBoxSVGA display driver and once again there are black screens and high CPU usage on the host. Although marked as an invalid setting, the VM booted and I was this time able to successfully install the Guest Additions.Įnabling 3D acceleration does not work. I restored the backup and changed the VM Display setting to VBoxVGA. The VM froze completely, with very high utilization of the host CPUs as shown by Activity Monitor on the host. The Win 11 install went fine (no adjustment to the default VirtualBox settings for a new Windows 11 guest) and then, when I was happy it was running ok, I made a backup and installed the Guest Additions.Īfter the VM reboot I resized the VM window. I just ran into the same problem on VirtualBox 7.0.4. Jan 2018, 23:52 Primary OS: MS Windows 10 VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: A recent version of Ubuntu and, as I write this, trying to get Windows 95 running properly Are there any good reasons to stick with it? ricecrispies Posts: 19 Joined: 7. I'm starting to get the impression that VirtualBox is desperately buggy and unreliable, and that I should just give up on it altogether. However, when I re-enabled 3D, Windows froze again on booting, and without 3D, there's no point having this virtual machine at all. I was then able to successfully install the guest additions. I managed to boot into guest Windows again by disabling 3D acceleration. Can the aspect ratio problem be fixed (ideally getting the guest Windows to display in 16:9 ratio)? The reason I ask that is because if that can't be fixed, I might as well abandon this VM and consider its OEM Windows license a sunk cost, and start afresh with VMWare. Can the guest Windows 11 be fixed, or do I need to do a clean install?Ģ. One possibly related issue is the one I was trying to fix when I tried to upgrade everything: The guest sees a 4:3 ratio screen, but the host displays it in it a 16:9 ratio screen, meaning that everything is stretched.ġ. Even when I press F4 as Windows is starting up in order to boot into safe mode, the guest Windows freezes all the same. Then the display gets completely garbled (a few white streaks on an otherwise black guest screen). The whole screen went black apart from a couple of icons from the Windows taskbar, and one or two text popups happened as I clicked the guest screen many times, suggesting that Windows was still running, but eventually I had to force a restart again.Īnd now Windows freezes within a few seconds of starting to boot. I then forced a restart and tried again to install the guest additions. The VM froze and the top half of the guest screen went black.
I then tried to update the guest additions on my guest Windows 11. I updated VirtualBox on my Mac (Ventura) from version 6.something to 7.0.4.
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