win7 VM crashes all the time

[jaaassh]

I installed the vbox jail template. My ubuntu guests have been pretty stable for some time now. However, I have this one win7 guest that crashes all the time. The simplest thing like resizing a window will trigger it.

Unfortunately, I can't find any logs that show anything wrong. Below is a link to the contents of /home/vbox/VirtualBox VMs/win7/VBox.log.1 after a crash. The Event manager inside windows hasn't shown anything useful either. I think it might be crashing before it gets a chance to write anything.

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ababd5cf84ea5ded21ce

 

[danb35]

In the VM's storage settings, have you checked the box for "enable host I/O cache"? That made a world of difference in the stability of my Win7 VM (as well as others).

 

[Jailer]

I have yet to get a Win7 VM to run with any stability with any settings. Win XP64 runs great.

 

[jaaassh]

@danb35 I'll enable that now. Thanks!. Fingers crossed!

 

[nanopete]

This seemed to do the trick for me as well. That's with Win7 64bit pro on FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201602031011 and I do not understand why. I would have thought enabling this would make it (maybe faster but) more unstable if anything.
Virtualbox above version 4.3 on freenas 9.3 would be great, but I guess we're getting that or Bhyve on freenas 10.
I'm not trying to be ungrateful here, I'm appreciating all the work that everybody has/is doing on both 9.3 and 10.
Pat yourself on the back guys