This is also on VirtualBox 5.1.x for me. Sorry that I neglected to include
that info.
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Giles Coochey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 02/02/17 13:56, David White wrote:
>
> I should clarify that, per the subject line, this occurs whenever the
> Windows 10 guest is running and the computer "times out" and auto-locks.
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:50 AM, David White <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've had an ongoing issue for quite some time, and I've now seen this
>> issue occur both on Ubuntu 16.04 as well as 16.10 and a Windows 10 Guest.
>> This has happened now on 2 different Asus laptops (including 1 that's brand
>> new), so I feel certain that this isn't a hardware issue (unless it's
>> something specific to an Asus driver or something).
>>
>> Everything works fine, but if I get up from the computer and then come
>> back, say, 30 minutes later, the computer is completely frozen. I can't
>> even do a ctl-alt-f1 to get to the terminal. The ONLY way for me to recover
>> is to do a hard reset.
>>
>> A few weeks ago, this really screwed things up in a big way, and I had to
>> boot to a Ubuntu Live CD image (on a USB drive) in order to run through a
>> ton of manual fsck fixes. This did the trick, but not after I thought my
>> hard drive was toast and had bought a new laptop.
>>
>> (I decided to keep the new one, and hold on to the old one as a spare!)
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this issue?
>>
>> I get something similar on Virtualbox 5.1.x (various versions, still
> happens with 5.1.14) running on a Ubuntu 16.10 host, but my guest is
> Windows 7 64-bit. My hardware is a Lenovo W520 laptop.
>
> I find that if I leave the lock screen in it's frozen state for around 10
> minutes and try again I can successfully unlock the session.
>
> I also have the problem where sometimes, if I leave my Windows 7 guest
> running overnight , or an extended period, then in the morning the entire
> system is running slow, and only restores its performance if I kill the
> Virtualbox process in Ubuntu.
>
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>
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