VM Occasionally Freezes

[stone212]

Qubes OS version (e.g., R3.2):

R 3.2

Affected TemplateVMs (e.g., fedora-23, if applicable):

Only tested on Debian 8 and 9

Expected behavior:

Keyboard, mouse, etc. respond to your input at all times.

Actual behavior:

Occasionally, a VM will freeze up for 30 seconds or more. In rare cases, VM restart is required. When this happens, the other VMs are just fine

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Have 3 VMs open, use them normally (browsing, terminal, email, etc.) Every now and then, one of the VMs will freeze as described above, meaning that keyboard and mouse no longer can affect applications from that VM.

General notes:

Using an i7 with 16GB RAM and an SSD so I don't think the problem is with the computer?

Related issues:

[aQubesUser]

I have experienced "freezing" VMs as well when using fedora-23 and running services like an I2P router. Programs like yakuake will fail to respond to the configured hotkey and require a full restart of the VM. Other applications such as firefox or chromium will continue to function if already open but trying to run additional programs will not work. A restart of the VM fixes the issue.

[aQubesUser]

I have experienced "freezing" VMs as well when using fedora-23 and running services like an I2P router. Programs like yakuake will fail to respond to the configured hotkey and require a full restart of the VM. Other applications such as firefox or chromium will continue to function if already open but trying to run additional programs will not work. A restart of the VM fixes the issue.

[stone212]

I am not running fedora-23, I am not running I2P or anything similar, and I don't know waht yakuake is. Often all I am running is a terminal and Firefox, and that is when the freeze happens.

[stone212]

I am not running fedora-23, I am not running I2P or anything similar, and I don't know waht yakuake is. Often all I am running is a terminal and Firefox, and that is when the freeze happens.