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Windows guest hangs 10s times a day on 11.5

I have recently updated my display to DELL U2720Q and replaced MS wireless keyboard with Apple's magic keyboard and i have a feeling this is somehow connected, i do not think i have had similar issues previously.

Very often it happens when i switch from host screen to guest in full-size mode. Host OS is 10.14.6 and guest is Windows 7.

It started to happen with Fusion 11.4, i then updated but it did not fix.

I will try to attach the log files here.

Thats pretty annoying and a  big issue for the productivity.

Please help!

Thanks,

Eugene.

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egold2005
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Okay, looks like i got it fixed.

I switched back to using 2GB of RAM for VM (have 8GB in total), and upgraded hardware version from 8 to 16.

As to the cores, i have 4 physical in total and 2 allocated to VM.

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egold2005
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Just to make sure...Guest OS hangs and then shuts down. Seems like this issue has been reported previously many times.

I tried to add the config setting for keyboard that was mentioned in one of the replies, no luck.

Please fix the subject - "guest" instead of "guess".

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Please fix the subject - "guest" instead of "guess".

You can do this yourself by editing your first post.

I've done it for you this time (as a moderator)


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egold2005
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I have noticed the following. The freeze of guest has something to do with a time the VM was sitting idle.

Lets say i startup VM and i then use the mouse to switch between host and VM screen in full-size mode. It goes perfectly, in both sides.

Now after 5 minutes working in a host environment, i again try to switch. The guest screen starts to appear on the right side, then goes a pause of about 5 seconds,

and then it finishes switching, yet with a noticeable delay.

Now lets say i step away, then get back, login to host and try to use the mouse gesture to switch to guest. Now it hangs completely and shuts down.

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egold2005
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Some more info...Actually quite often the host freeze as well and i have to hard-reset the machine.

Just now when the guest Win7 again got frozen, i got a message that "The virtual machine is unable to reserve memory".

This VM has 4GB RAM allocated and the total installed on host is 8GB. I tried to Retry and got it shut down.

So....any ideas??????????

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ColoradoMarmot
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How many cores in the host and guest?   The rule of thumb is no more than N-1 cores per guest where N is the number of physical (not virtual) cores.

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egold2005
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Okay, looks like i got it fixed.

I switched back to using 2GB of RAM for VM (have 8GB in total), and upgraded hardware version from 8 to 16.

As to the cores, i have 4 physical in total and 2 allocated to VM.

ColoradoMarmot
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Very cool, glad it's working!

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