pfSense boot problem (FreeBSD)

[virtualhuman]

Hello everyone,

On several networks, I've installed virtualbox with a pfSense vm. Everything seems to work fine except there is one problem, on boot (or reboot) pfSense will boot fine on most cases (probably 7 out of 10 reboots). But on a few occasions (about 3 out of those 10 reboots) the boot process will fail.

Eventually, I had to setup a cronjob that pings the pfSense vm and if its dead, it will initiate a forced reboot of the vm.

Attached is a screenshot of what I see when pfSense fails to boot. Interestingly, as I mentioned above, all I need to do, is reboot again and things work just fine, so I am not sure why this random failure appears in some reboots.

Anyone seen this problem before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[socratis]

1. Why do you think that this is a VirtualBox problem? Just because an OS/program that runs in the context of VirtualBox has a problem, it doesn't make it a VirtualBox problem necessarily. You're having a random issue that has most probably nothing to do with VirtualBox, so my suggestion would be to treat it as such, as a native problem with the OS or the application of the guest.
2. Just to make sure, we need to see a complete VBox.log, from a complete VM run, where the problem occurs:
   • Start the VM from cold-boot (not from a paused or saved state) / Observe problem / Shutdown the VM (force close it if you have to).
   • With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
   • Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form.