I installed Windows 11 in Virtual Box in case I need it for school but it keeps crashing. My laptop is 12gb RAM and I gave the VM 8gb RAM.

If I upgrade my laptop RAM to maybe 16gb and give the VM 12gb RAM would that help? Thanks I’m a newb

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    No, if you open a terminal and run:
    sudo dmesg

    You should get a long output which is the kernel log. Assuming the crash happened recently, there may be something in the last few lines (bottom of the output) which could indicate why the process died (or was killed). Keep in mind that this is a running log; so, if it’s been a while since the crash, the entries for it may be higher up in the log. It’s often best (if you can) to trigger the problem then immediately go run the sudo dmesg command and look at the output. With luck, there will be useful logs. If not, you may need to look elsewhere.