Guest OS Windows 11 virtual machine crashes in VirtualBox 7.0.8 on macOS 13.3.1 ventura

[Jaebeom Cheon]

I tried installing VirtualBox 7.0.8 on a host computer running macOS 13.3.1 ventura on a Mac mini with Intel Core i7 3.2GHz 6 Core. And I created a virtual machine and installed Windows 11 as Guest OS.

The virtual machine has 4 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM. After installing GuestOS, I installed the Guest OS extension pack.

However, when using it, the screen of the virtual machine freezes or suddenly dies. Looking at the VirtualBox logs, I have no idea what it means.

If anyone has had a similar experience to mine and has a solution, please help.

thank you

[tiewrap]

I had the same issue. I'm running Mac OS 13.3.1 and installed Windows 11 on a VM running virtualbox 7.0.8, same as you. A few minutes after booting Windows, Windows froze up and all I could do was reboot. After quite a while, I came to understand that Windows 11 was stable if I did not install the virtualbox Guest Additions on Windows. As soon as I installed the additions, the instability came back. So I guess the instability was caused by the Guest Additions that come with VB 7.0.8. Elsewhere on the VB website I saw a suggestion that I try an older version of the Guest Additions, so that's what I did. Now Windows 11 is stable, with the older Guest Additions installed.

My fix was to: boot the unstable Windows; quickly run controlPanel and go to Programs -> Programs and Features, right click on "Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions" and click "uninstall"; On the Mac, go to the VirtualBox website's download page and find the link to older versions; download VirtualBox 6.1.44 - but don't install it; Extract VBoxGuestAdditions.iso from the downloaded VirtualBox-6.1.44-156814-OSX.dmg Virtualbox has a border offering a set of actions at the top of the window containing your VM; one of those is Devices Under Devices, Optical Disks, click "Choose a Disk File", and in the file dialog navigate to wherever you extracted the older VBoxGuestAdditions and select it; (NOTE: if the newer VBoxGuestAdditions is still in your "CD drive", you may have to eject that first); Then in Windows just install this older VBoxGuestAdditions as usual.

This fixed the problem for me. Hope you have the same outcome. Good luck.

[nick_max]

I had the same issue. Downgrading Guest Additions fix the issue.

[aeichner]

There were some fixes in VirtualBox 7.0.10 addressing Ventura. Please reopen if this is still an issue and attach a VBox.log of the affected VMs.