What causes Windows 8 Consumer Preview to lock-up / freeze / hang in Oracle VM VirtualBox?

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Published on 2012-05-03T17:03:29Z Indexed on 2012/06/29 3:18 UTC
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I've installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview to a virtual machine using Oracle VM VirtualBox (4.1.14). It works well except for occasional temporary lock-up / freeze / hang interruptions.

It will freeze for about a minute and then resume like normal for several more minutes before freezing again.

Host
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
16 GB RAM
Intel Core i7 (quad core, hyper threading, virtualization) CPU

Guest
Windows 8 Consumer Preview 64-bit
2 GB RAM
2 CPUs

How should I configure VirtualBox to run Windows 8 well?

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