Excel 2013 Freezes in VirtualBox

[mrkmiller88]

Host system: Mac OS X 10.10.4 on a MacBook8,1 (we've also noticed that it happens on some other models as well)

Whenever working in Excel 2013, attempting to select cells or input formulas into those cells, whether one or multiple, causes Excel to respond extremely slowly. You can replicate this by selecting a single cell, then dragging your mouse in any direction to select multiple cells. You'll notice the delay significantly. We do not notice this issue in Excel 2010.

Lastly, as a University, we deploy VBox 4.3.30 to all our students which where we are having the issue. We've also been testing on VBox 5.0.4 and noticed the same issue.

[mrkmiller88]

Here is a screen cast of the issue: ​http://www.screencast.com/t/VJeYEOyr9Nw

Just to clarify, we are experiencing this issue on the newer 2015 MacBook and MacBook Pro's. For ex. MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)

[Frank Mehnert]

There was a fix in VBox 5.0.6 which could be related, did you try 5.0.6 as well? If this still doesn't work, please provide a VBox.log file of a VM session where Excel freezes in the guest.

[Frank Mehnert]

Oh, I forgot, please update the Guest Additions as well!

[mrkmiller88]

VBox.log

[mrkmiller88]

Here’s the VBox.log file. You’ll notice some mention of 5.0.10 because I also tested Excel 2013 in that environment but the issue persisted, so I downgraded to 5.0.6 to try your suggestion. Please let me know if I can provide anymore helpful details.

[mrkmiller88]

Just checking to see if there has been any updates? I've also tried the latest 5.0.12 without any luck. Are you guys at least able to replicate based on the information that I have provided?