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Windows 7 on VirtualBox: Random Freeze

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Running a Windows 7 guest via VirtualBox on OSX Lion, I noticed that the guest VM would periodically freeze up. The freezes occurred once every few minutes and would unfreeze within half a minute. It was quite annoying and after many months of back-and-forth on the VirtualBox forum, it seems like there is a solution. The solution is to use the Chipset PIIX3 (instead of ICH9) in the virtual machine's motherboard settings


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Anonymous said…
Dankeschön! Endlich habe ich diesen entscheidenden Hinweis gefunden!

Nachdem ich vom Chipset »ICH9« auf »PIIX3« gewechselt habe sind diese furchtbar störenden "Hänger" endlich weg!

Grüße aus Linz/Donau,
Måx (Rudolf Füreder)
June 2, 2012 at 4:19 AM
Unknown said…
Bitte Schön. Glad to be of help,
July 1, 2012 at 8:20 PM
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