VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

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evillone
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VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

Post by evillone »

Greetings All,
Hope everyone is well!
i have Zorin Linux OS installed since last year along with Virtual Box and was running two windows Guest VMS for months with no issues on the linux Host.
Around 2 weeks ago, after updating the kernel on the host as well as updating VBox Guest additions, both my windows VMS did not work properly anymore.
Browsers would not open, Both VM's were slow and sometimes non responsive.
I have tried re-installing video drivers, ( host)
reinstalling Vbox
checked HD's
Error messages im getting on guest machine in dmesg when attempting to install LINUX guest
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machine specs

OS: Zorin OS 16.1 x86_64
Kernel: 5.17.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64
Uptime: 1 day, 13 hours, 31 mins
Packages: 2503 (dpkg), 71 (flatpak), 4 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.0.17
Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080
CPU: Intel i7-2600K (8) @ 3.401GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family
Memory: 5241MiB / 32010MiB



I am now at the point where Virtual Box will hang on ANY installation.
i have tried, Zorin | Ubuntu | Mint | windows OS read through all the articles with the different settings and have tried every scenario under the sun.
ALL are failing at some point during the installation.
reading up on many pages indicates that this has been an issue for a few years across different versions of VBOX,
any help or comments will be greatly appreciated. As of now VBOX is useless on my Main HOST Linux machine which is a shame as i LOVE this app.

thank you all in advance.

CHEERS !
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Re: VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

Post by fth0 »

Linux kernel 5.17 is only supported by VirtualBox 6.1.34 (or newer).
evillone
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Re: VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

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fth0 wrote:Linux kernel 5.17 is only supported by VirtualBox 6.1.34 (or newer).
thank you for the response :D
if that is the newest version, as mentioned, i have re-installed and ensured the newest version of everything.
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Re: VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

Post by mpack »

Provide a VM log file. Make sure the VM is fully shut down, then right click it in the manager UI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.
evillone
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Re: VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

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mpack wrote:Provide a VM log file. Make sure the VM is fully shut down, then right click it in the manager UI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.
Thank you for the response ,
attached log.
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Re: VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

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From the log:
00:00:12.322311 VirtualBox VM 6.1.32_Ubuntu r149290 linux.amd64 (Feb 8 2022 12:20:46) release log
00:00:12.322316 OS Product: Linux
00:00:12.322317 OS Release: 5.17.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64
From fth0:
fth0 wrote:Linux kernel 5.17 is only supported by VirtualBox 6.1.34 (or newer).
QED. :D

Which means this:
evillone wrote:if that is the newest version, as mentioned, i have re-installed and ensured the newest version of everything.
hasn't worked yet.

And you're running the Ubuntu fork of Virtualbox, supported by Ubuntu, not this forum. Please try the installation from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads again, noting that Virtualbox on Linux has prerequisites before installation: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02. ... nux-prereq, and watch the terminal messages for errors.
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Re: VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

Post by evillone »

yah i have went through many scenarios, that was just the current status of one,
i will purge again, and try your links,
i had installed from the 'software store repo' originally.

thank you
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Re: VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

Post by evillone »

Thanks for the help thus far, this time i have 6.1.34 installed hopefully with all the necessary packages etc.
got the same error unfortunately.
your patience and expertise is appreciated

attached log

Cheers !
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Re: VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

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The log shows what appears to be working virtual hardware, and the OS apparently running and the Guest Additions loading.

There is this:
Host OS:
00:00:30.429603 OS Product: Linux
00:00:30.429604 OS Release: 5.17.0-14.1-liquorix-amd64
I wonder if you'd need to try the test build? Please see viewtopic.php?f=7&t=106071&p=519331#p519286 regarding the host Linux version you have.
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Re: VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

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scottgus1 wrote:I wonder if you'd need to try the test build?
Most probably, yes. And kudos for choosing the right strategy :) recommending the test build, because:

Unfortunately, it's not easy to compare the Linux kernel versions, because each Linux distribution has their own versioning scheme. For example, a Liquorix kernel 5.17.0-14.1 is generally based on Linux kernel 5.17.0 and contains "some of" the changes of the newer Linux kernels 5.17.x. This "some of" would have to be researched to be absolutely sure, but in the Liquorix case the "14" indicates indeed that 5.17.14 is the Linux kernel base version.
evillone
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Re: VBOX hanging on ALL guest installs

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Thank you for the responses Folks,
guess I'm waiting for a stable release.
In the meantime may mess around with the testing version.
going forward, i guess updating is a bad thing..
sucks....
:(
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