[Solved] Virtual machine does not start

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jluishg
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[Solved] Virtual machine does not start

Post by jluishg »

I'm receiving an error when try to start a VM. The log file show this status

00:00:05.979451 Console: Machine state changed to 'PoweredOff'
00:00:06.551645 GUI: Passing request to close Runtime UI from machine-logic to UI session.
00:00:06.918674 GUI: UIMachineViewNormal::resendSizeHint: Restoring guest size-hint for screen 0 to 1299x669
00:00:06.918895 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={The console is not powered up}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
00:00:06.919491 GUI: Aborting startup due to invalid machine state detected: 1

Any suggestion?

Thx in advance
scottgus1
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Re: Virtual machine does not start

Post by scottgus1 »

The whole log is usually necessary to start diagnosing a problem.

Please zip the log file, and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.
jluishg
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Re: Virtual machine does not start

Post by jluishg »

Here is the log file. Thx again
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mpack
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Re: Virtual machine does not start

Post by mpack »

You are very close to exhausting available RAM on this host. Too close.
00:00:03.668689 Host RAM: 7806MB (7.6GB) total, 4200MB (4.1GB) available
...
00:00:03.998791 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000100000000 (4 294 967 296, 4 096 MB, 4.0 GB)
00:00:03.999610 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000001000000 (16 777 216, 16 MB)
XP really doesn't need 4GB RAM. 512MB was a good spec back in the day. Certainly 1024MB or 2048MB would be luxury.

OTOH, your graphics RAM allocation is pathetically small. Don't you get a incorrect settings warning for this? I would increase to 64MB.

I see other errors in the log.
00:00:04.375264 Console: VM runtime error: fatal=false, errorID=BrokenSharedFolder message="The shared folder 'ms-w' could not be set up: Shared folder path '/media/jluishg/ms-w' does not exist on the host.
And finally the big one.
00:00:04.451100 Console: Machine state changed to 'GuruMeditation'
00:00:04.453310 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:00:04.453313 !!
00:00:04.453314 !! VCPU0: Guru Meditation -79 (VERR_INVALID_STATE)
00:00:04.453324 !!
I believe this means that you have another hypervisor enabled on your host, fighting for control of VT-x. On a Linux host I guess that would be KVM.

It's a pity you only gave XP one core when you installed it, since your host can afford two. Getting XP to recognize multiple cores after installation is not trivial.
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Re: Virtual machine does not start

Post by jluishg »

Hi, first of all thanks for your comments. I changed the RAM settings and solve the main problem. I found that "Multipass" was running a virtual machine. I stopped and VBox works fine. Thanks again.
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Re: Virtual machine does not start

Post by mpack »

Thanks for reporting back.
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