Guru Meditation 1155 (VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT)

[Spac3]

Hi Fellow Virualbox users,

Hopefully you can assist me.
I've been using Virualbox for a few years now and I'm loving it, however it's always been on a desktop PC.
Recently I got a Xeon Server tower as a gift and I planned to load a bunch of VMS on it.
Clean Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS Server minimal install with RAID 5 (350GB*5) and 4GB RAM (headless), so Hardware should not be a problem for small VMs.

I loaded a small VM on it, but the VM keeps on crashing. The VM boots and I can VRDP to it, however the moment I select "Install" (Ubuntu server 14.04 ISO) then the screen goes black and the host console window drop debug info.

Here's the Create and start-up script for a sample VM:

vmstart.txt

script to create and run vm

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Host console output:

vmconsole.txt

This is the Host console output

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Virtualbox log file:

vmlog.zip

The Virtual box Log file

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I'm probably doing something stupid wrong, so please forgive me if I am.

[mpack]

Given that it's a 64bit server VM, I'd try giving it rather more than 512MB to work with. I would suggest 2GB. A 10GB disk seems rather small as well - I'd suggest 40GB. Otherwise nothing leaps out.

[Spac3]

Given that it's a 64bit server VM, I'd try giving it rather more than 512MB to work with. I would suggest 2GB. A 10GB disk seems rather small as well - I'd suggest 40GB. Otherwise nothing leaps out.

Hi Mpack,

Thank you for your input, however I don't believe that it would be a problem seeing that it doesn't need that much resources. However I have tried that before.
.. any other ideas that I could try?

Extract from Ubuntu[dot]com:

Ubuntu Server (CLI) Installation
300 MHz x86 processor
192 MiB of system memory (RAM)
1 GB of disk space
Graphics card and monitor capable of 640x480
CD drive

[mpack]

Those specs can't be accurate - in fact they look ancient: a 64bit server will not run on a 300MHz x86.

[Spac3]

Those specs can't be accurate - in fact they look ancient: a 64bit server will not run on a 300MHz x86.

I got if from the Ubuntu website, just keep in mind that I'm not doing a GUI install. Everything I do is CLI so the Server load is Very low.
Either way, I've boosted the specs and it makes no difference. I have this feeling that there's something wrong somewhere.

help[dot]ubuntu[dot]com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

[Perryg]

Ubuntu server 64-bit will work happily at 512MB if you don't try to compile anything on it. Even then it would probably work albeit slowly.

The triple fault however is more than likely due to the CPU and the way VBox is identifying it. ( that's just my opinion ) but in any case you would need to post a ticket at bugtracker to see if the DEVs can help.

[Spac3]

For those who are intrested, I've logged it as #13125

www[dot]virtualbox[dot]org/ticket/13125

Thanks for the feedback, if anyone has more ideas, please let me know?