Unhandled Error during first VM session

[tranders]

Trying to load a Xubuntu VirtualBox session on my Windows 8 host and repeatedly run into an unhandled error. Please see log. I am limited on RAM on this machine, so thinking that could maybe be causing problems. I am only allocating 512 MB to the session (but also got an error when giving it 1024).

Version 5.2.14 r123301 (Qt5.6.2)

tranders

[andyp73]

00:03:02.338369 Host RAM: 2038MB total, 855MB available
00:03:03.242730   RamSize           <integer> = 0x0000000040000000 (1 073 741 824, 1 024 MB)
00:03:03.243587   VRamSize         <integer> = 0x0000000001000000 (16 777 216, 16 MB)

Based on this configuration you are allocating RAM to the guest that you don't have available on the host. If you can't increase the host RAM then you need to look to see if you can close any more applications on the host. If not, I would set the RAM to 512MB and the VRAM to 64MB.

00:03:03.258383 HM: HMR3Init: Falling back to raw-mode: VT-x is not available

Unfortunately your Intel T5300 CPU doesn't support VT-x which has become a more significant requirement in recent versions of VirtualBox even for 32bit guest operating systems. You may get slightly further if you disable the hardware virtualisation support using:

VBoxManage modifyvm <vm_name> --hwvirtex off

If not you will have to go back to one of the now unsupported 5.1.x or 5.0.x versions of VirtualBox to see if you can find one that works on our limited hardware.

-Andy.

[tranders]

Thanks Andy. I really appreciate your effort and the information. Been limping this laptop along for a while now and thought I could at least use it as a virtual box if nothing else!

I've doubled the RAM now, so I think we're good there (and cut the guest allocation to 512 MB, officially).

I got rid of the HMR3Init message as well, it seems, using VBoxManage to turn off hardware virtualization.

Still throwing and unhandled error though (maybe a new one, not familiar enough to tell).

I have not tried installing an older version of VirtualBox yet. Will try that too, to see what I get.

-Troy