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Software & hardware support => Newbie questions => Topic started by: Larky on March 02, 2024, 12:17:44 AM

Title: Crashing often in Virtualbox
Post by: Larky on March 02, 2024, 12:17:44 AM
Hi. I use another Linux and want to migrate, have been testing sparkylinux-2024.02-x86_64-lxqt on Virtualbox for a few days.

I like it a lot except that it causes Virtualbox to crash virtually every time. Some times it takes longer than others, but it always happens eventually. First, the mouse pointer freezes. Sometimes I can barely move it, very very slowly. Getting out of Virtualbox full screen mode is hard. Switching to another tty in the host machine takes a while. When it finally does, I have a command ready to kill Virtualbox. But experience tells me that killing Virtualbox only saves time. Virtualbox will panic and close on its own if I wait long enough.

I test many OSes on Virtualbox and this is this first time I ever see this happen, and it's happened with Sparky every time I boot it.

Have you had a similar experience? Have you seen any similar report in the forum?
Title: Re: Crashing often in Virtualbox
Post by: AxL on March 04, 2024, 11:13:07 PM
Quote from: Larky on March 02, 2024, 12:17:44 AM[....] I use another Linux and want to migrate, have been testing sparkylinux-2024.02-x86_64-lxqt on Virtualbox for a few days.

I like it a lot except that it causes Virtualbox to crash virtually every time.

(https://i.imgur.com/bDtcOwK.gif)  Please, review and ask questions here:

Title: Re: Crashing often in Virtualbox
Post by: Larky on March 06, 2024, 09:39:01 PM


Quote from: AxL on March 04, 2024, 11:13:07 PM(https://i.imgur.com/bDtcOwK.gif)  Please, review and ask questions here:

But...

Quote from: Larky on March 02, 2024, 12:17:44 AMI test many OSes on Virtualbox and this is this first time I ever see this happen, and it's happened with Sparky every time I boot it.