[Solved] Guru Meditation - A critical error has occured while running the virtual machine

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fdominguez
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[Solved] Guru Meditation - A critical error has occured while running the virtual machine

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Hi,

I have a virtual machine running with Windows 10 Pro in my Ubuntu 20.04 host machine. Last time I used that virtual machine, it was running smoothly. Today, when I started it, I received this error that says that a critical error has occured while running the virtual machine.

I haven't changed anything in either my host computer or in the virtual machine settings. I'm attaching the logs for you to check.

Thank you.
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mpack
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Re: Guru Meditation - A critical error has occured while running the virtual machine

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fdominguez
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Re: Guru Meditation - A critical error has occured while running the virtual machine

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Hi,

Using the following solved the problem:

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VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal/RamPreAlloc" 1
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fth0
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Re: [Solved] Guru Meditation - A critical error has occured while running the virtual machine

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The RAM pre-allocation serves as a workaround, so that the VM does not crash during startup, but I'm not sure if it can serve as a permanent solution. The solution is to use VirtualBox 6.1.24 or newer (current version as of this writing is 6.1.32).
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