Windows 7 guest on Virtualbox freezes and only works when mouse moves
2014-04
gtbono
I am having a problem on my Virtualbox 4.3 instalation (Windows 7 guest and Debian Wheezy as host, my machine is a HP Desktop with dual monitors and a SSD, dunno if it helps) And the issue occurs, when I copy a file, for example, that shows a dialog with a progression bar, it copies a little and freeze, it will stay there for hours, and it will only advance and copy the file if I move my mouse (really, really weird, but that's what is happening).
And I noticed that the clock is always off-sync with my host machine, I need to synchronize my host machine clock for the guest clock became right but it will be wrong minutes later automatically.
Does someone has an idea of what is happening?
user11955
I started having super annoying problems on my machine all of a sudden (no hardware or software changes were made).
I can use the PC normally, and all of a sudden, the screen would just freeze, and stop responding to keyboard, and mouse clicks. Clock would freeze also. I can still move the mouse, which changes from pointer, to hand, to stretch cursors when I move it over random stuff. Sometimes it would unfreeze after a minute or so, but usually it does not, and requires a power cycle.
Im running Windows 7 64x on i7 920, 12 GB ram, 2 x 80GB SSD raid0, dual 8800GTX, Gigabyte UDR5 mobo, 4 x 300GB drive in raid 5 on mobo, another 4 x 1.5TB in raid5 on a separate raid card and some 1000W power supply.
EDIT: Whats interesting is that once the screen freezes, computer still responds to mouse movements, and clicks, so if I move a mouse next a window, and resize it, it actually resizes it, but it doesn't visually change. The resize cursor position changes to where I last let it go. I can also minimize all windows, which doesn't allow me to resize anything anymore (since its all minimized), yet the screen still remains static. I figured this could be a GPU problem.... but why would the mouse still work?
boot13
That sounds like a display issue for sure. Make sure your display drivers are up to date. Try running the machine with the cover off to see if that changes when the freeze occurs; if it happens later or not at all, it's most likely heat related. The temperatures you listed seem a trifle high by my standards.