Opened 4 years ago
#19614 new defect
Enabling Page Fusion cause Windows 10 guests to hang random time after booting
| Reported by: | DerekD | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 6.1.8 |
| Keywords: | Page Fusion | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I first posted in the forums and didn't get much direction.
Sometime after upgrading to 6.1.x (don't remember the exact version - .2 or .3 or maybe .4 I think) my Windows 10 guests would randomly freeze shortly after booting. I built a new from DVD/ISO Windows 10 1909 VM and it didn't/wouldn't freeze. In comparing the output of "VBoxManage showvminfo" I noticed that I had different settings for Memory Balloning and Page Fusion.
The freezing behavior didn't change with adjustments to the memory balloning settings, but did for page fusion. If page fusion was enabled on the "old" Windows or the "new" Windows guest they would freeze. Disabling page fusion on the guests and they wouldn't freeze. I could repeat this Page Fusion Enabled = Freeze, Page Fusion Disabled = No Freeze.
The guest additions version of the guest matched the host (6.1.8) when I did the final set of testing.
VirtualBox: 6.1.8 with guest additions
Host: Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit
Kernel: 4.15.0.n
Memory: 48GB (was 16GB when I initially set up memory balloning and page fusion back in 5.2 days)

