[Solved] Critical Error Upon VM Creation

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l2ichlvl
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[Solved] Critical Error Upon VM Creation

Post by l2ichlvl »

Hey folks,

I am getting an error upon creation of the VM. Guru Meditation says: "A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has been stopped." I'm selecting:

Linux (other 32 bit) and then choosing Zorin OS as the .iso (zorin-os /12/core/32/)

I've attached the error log. Please let me know if there's anything else I can provide to help my cause. I'm new to all this so any and all guidance is most appreciated!
VBox.zip
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Last edited by socratis on 24. May 2018, 07:26, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Marked as [Solved].
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Re: Critical Error Upon VM Creation

Post by andyp73 »

VBox.log wrote:
00:00:08.039680 HM: HMR3Init: Falling back to raw-mode: VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes
It's a matter of enabling it in the BIOS. See your PC's manufacturer help on how to do this. Also, make sure that nothing else has an exclusive hold on the VT-x. Your Intel i7-2600 definitely supports it.

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l2ichlvl
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Re: Critical Error Upon VM Creation

Post by l2ichlvl »

Tl;dr - it worked.

Longer version - I originally did try to enable this, but couldn't find the setting in BIOS, so I went down the .vdi and .ova path without the desired results. You inspired me to look again and lo' and behold!

Thanks for taking the time to answer!
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Re: Critical Error Upon VM Creation

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Glad you got it going. Marking as [Solved].
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