virtualbox screen goes black when rebooting

Question

WHen rebooting my windows xp virtualbox VM, the screen goes blank with the top 1/2 of the screen having slanted lines all over it.

it only seems to happen if I reboot and minimize the window, if I keep the focus on that window it doesn't happend.

I have to go to machines -> reset to fix it.

Answer 1

There are usually a few solutions for the screen hanging on a reboot:

• Give the guest a little more memory
• Disable Nested Paging in settings
• Disable Auto resize guest display in settings

The slanted lines are likely from the auto resizing of the display.