On 12/9/23 13:03, James Knott wrote:
I'm not sure that's the problem. The VM runs to the point where I hit enter to get the password box. But it's not there long enough for me to enter a password. What makes this more interesting is I also have a W10 VM (along with W98 & OS/2 Warp 4) on my ThinkPad and it runs fine. Again, this VM has been running for years, through several openSUSE updates and from W7 to W10. It's only with 15.5 on my desktop computer that it now fails.
Yes, The issues can be spurious. Virtualbox provides a general backend for the windows system calls, it's good, but not perfect and can be confused. I've run the same 5-6 VMs for years. I sill have an XP VM needed for old accounting software. I think it has been updated from virtualbox 4 (or earlier) Worst case, start in safe-mode with networking and then run the time trusted repairs to refresh the Win10 image: ## identify corrupt files: sfc /scannow ## find corruption in update and window image store: DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth I've not had a Win10 issue that wouldn't fix -- can't hurt. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.