Windows XP guest will not start, VB 3.1.8, Ubuntu 10.04

[Sasquatch]

I see a few things in the logs. First the hardware virtualisation part, but that might not mean anything:

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Enabled            <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
Exclusive          <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
VMX - Virtual Machine Technology       = 0 (0)
SVM - AMD VM Extensions                = 0 (0)
HWACCM: No VT-x or AMD-V CPU extension found. Reason VERR_SVM_NO_SVM

It's turned on, but not working because the system does not have VT-x/AMD-V. Again, this might not mean anything, there are some VMs on my system that show the same and do not have any problem booting.

Now for the interesting part:

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00:00:12.054 SharedFolders host service: connected, u32ClientID = 1
00:00:15.588 Guest requests the VM to be turned off
00:00:15.588 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'POWERING_OFF'.
...
00:00:15.619 Console::powerDown(): A request to power off the VM has been issued (mMachineState=Stopping, InUninit=0)

It seems that the machine itself is requesting a power down, it doesn't crash. The VM status isn't aborted in the list, it should be just 'powered off'.

[bbbaldie]

Well, after reading your reply, Sasquatch, it began to feel like a corrupted configuration. So I moved the machine out of the .Virtualbox folder in my home directory, then deleted it (the .Virtualbox folder).

Starting up Virtualbox, I added a new machine using the moved snapshot. It fired up fine.

Thanks for your indirect help.