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What's crashing? the Linux host? Virtualbox? the windows guest?
(personally I won't be able to help you, but other people might)
First the VM will freeze. Then my whole computer freezes. Then the VM closes and in the Virtual Box menu it says that Windows 11 aborted.
This sounds exactly like Linux giving the old OOM killer. Reproduce the problem, then look at the output of
sudo dmesg. If it shows something like "OOM killed process", then yes, that's the problem.Do the following: