Doing the same for Windows 11 seems to have stopped the freezing behaviour so far.

The Paravirtualisation interface also may have caused issues with Windows 10 virtual machines since these were all set to KVM. In the end, a look at the bug tracker for Windows guest operating systems running on VirtualBox sent me in another direction. It might have been the combination of underlying graphics hardware and the drivers on my Linux Mint machine that hindered me when it helped others. The suggestion of enabling 3D graphics capability did nothing but produce a black screen at startup time so that was not a runner. If I was to use Windows 11 as a long-term replacement for Windows 10, these needed to go.Īn internet search showed that others faced the same predicament but a range of proposed solutions did nothing for me.

This was to eradicate intermittent freezes that escalated CPU usage and necessitated hard restarts. In recent days, I have been trying to get Windows 11 to run smoothly within a VirtualBox virtual machine, and there has been a lot of experimentation along the way.

Getting a Windows 11 Guest to run smoothly on VirtualBox 23rd November 2022

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