After getting my windows 10 VM running over the weekend, I've been experiencing a lot of random freezing/crashing when clicking on an icon or starting an app. When Idle, it seems to keep running (so far) but when anything is clicked, there's a risk of a crash. Splashtop will freeze up or so will VNC. I need to force stop it to get it going again.

 

I used the SpaceInvader video to set up the VM and followed it. Everything is working, but it's freezing, a lot. Is there any way to diagnose this VM to see if it's running properly? It's my first VM so I'm at a loss of where to start. Do the Diagnostic logs help in this case when it's a VM freezing up?

Edited July 15, 20241 yr by csimpson

All my windows 11 VMs are freezing and pausing. I tried to reinstall windows on one of them and the vm is pausing during install. Its also pausing during the windows repair.

 

Edited July 15, 20241 yr by ffgdad

@ffgdadAt the risk of hijacking my thread with two different problems and creating confusion, I'm going to pull it back to mine and ask the original question

 

"Is there any way to diagnose this VM to see if it's running properly? It's my first VM so I'm at a loss of where to start. Do the Diagnostic logs help in this case when it's a VM freezing up"

So it crashed after 2 hours and 59 minutes. It was doing nothing. This is the frozen screen.

I completely deleted the VM and reinstalled from scratch. Vanilla Install, nothing added. Just the drivers. Let's see how it goes...

Edited July 16, 20241 yr by csimpson

Not that there's anything going on in this thread, but I may have solved it.  I had set the resolution to be 2560X1440 and the font size was set to 150% as I'm on a HiDPI display and wanted to benefit from the higher PPI. Turns out, setting it to a font size of 100% has eliminated the freezing/crashing. I'm still testing and turning features back on, but this seems to be the culprit, so far.