Guest won't start [solved]

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SimonR
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Guest won't start [solved]

Post by SimonR »

Stupid human problem, this error:

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$ vboxmanage startvm AccountsMachine
Waiting for VM "AccountsMachine" to power on...
VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine 'AccountsMachine' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine
Results if you try to start on a headless machine, but omit the --headless flag.

Sigh :(
Last edited by SimonR on 28. Mar 2021, 20:57, edited 1 time in total.
SimonR
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Joined: 12. May 2014, 04:55

Re: Guest won't start

Post by SimonR »

I deleted the VM and restored it from an OVA (known to be valid at the time it was made). It still failed in the same way.

I believe the problem might be that my host had done an update, and changed the kernel from (not exactly sure...) about 4.05 to 4.15.

I'm upgrading the entire host to Ubuntu 20.04, and will reinstall virtualbox accordingly afterward.
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