VM failed to boot VB 6.0.8/CentOS 7

[Tony Su]

My VM on VirtualBox 6.0.8 failed to boot with some error message (I failed to upload the full log file with error message exceeding 128KB limit):

00:00:03.096508 E1000#2: Max TX Delay        : 0
00:00:03.103696 GIM: KVM: Resetting MSRs
00:00:03.105387 Changing the VM state from 'DESTROYING' to 'TERMINATED'
00:00:03.108312 Console: Machine state changed to 'PoweredOff'
00:00:03.614556 GUI: Passing request to close Runtime UI from machine-logic to UI session.
00:00:04.081028 GUI: UIMachineViewNormal::resendSizeHint: Restoring guest size-hint for screen 0 to 800x600
00:00:04.081069 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={ab4164db-c13e-4dab-842d-61ee3f0c1e87} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={The console is not powered up}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
00:00:04.081176 GUI: Aborting startup due to invalid machine state detected: 1

Solution I tried
1) reinstall VirtualBox by rpm -e and rpm rpm -vhi
2) reinstall Extenstion Pack and confirmed by VBox.log

00:00:00.435114 Installed Extension Packs:
00:00:00.435122   Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (Version: 6.0.8 r130520; VRDE Module: VBoxVRDP)

My Machine and VirtualBox Info

[tony@tony-dev ~]$ uname -a 
Linux tony-dev 3.10.0-957.12.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 14 21:24:32 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[tony@tony-dev ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) 

[tony@tony-dev ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i virtualbox
VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.8_130520_el7-1.x86_64

[socratis]

I failed to upload the full log file with error message exceeding 128KB limit

Even if you ZIP it?

reinstall VirtualBox by rpm -e and rpm rpm -vhi

I hope that you followed the instructions in the Linux Downloads and added the VirtualBox repository, otherwise you're getting the CentOS fork, which is not supported here. If you want support here, you should download the official VirtualBox from the page above.

[Tony Su]

Thanks socratis for your reply.
Let me follow the link you give me and see what happens...

[Tony Su]

Hi @socratis,

I followed the installation guide by the link you provided and reinstalled VirtualBox without any error.

[tony@tony-dev Logs]$ yum list installed | grep -i virtualbox
VirtualBox-6.0.x86_64                  6.0.8_130520_el7-1              @virtualbox

However, my VM still failed with the same error message.

00:00:02.177460 GIM: KVM: Resetting MSRs
00:00:02.179163 Changing the VM state from 'DESTROYING' to 'TERMINATED'
00:00:02.181994 Console: Machine state changed to 'PoweredOff'
00:00:02.688998 GUI: Passing request to close Runtime UI from machine-logic to UI session.
00:00:03.057162 GUI: UIMachineViewNormal::resendSizeHint: Restoring guest size-hint for screen 0 to 800x600
00:00:03.057196 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={ab4164db-c13e-4dab-842d-61ee3f0c1e87} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={The console is not powered up}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
00:00:03.057269 GUI: Aborting startup due to invalid machine state detected: 1

I attached the log file in gzip format.

[socratis]

• Lower the CPUs from 4 to 2.
• Increase the VRAM from 16 to 64 MB.
• Change the vGPU from VMSVGA to VBoxVGA.

Also, does this happen with every client, or just this one. Because honestly this thing is DOA...

[Tony Su]

Hi @socratis,

Thanks for your suggestions.
Let me try them tomorrow.

btw. The boot failure in fact happens for all VM machines with the same error message.
if DOA means Dead on Arrival, yes. it's DOA.

[Tony Su]

Hi @socratis,

sorry. no luck. it still failed to boot with the same error.

00:00:03.814487 E1000#2: Max TX Delay : 0
00:00:03.819748 GIM: KVM: Resetting MSRs
00:00:03.821572 Changing the VM state from 'DESTROYING' to 'TERMINATED'
00:00:03.832791 Console: Machine state changed to 'PoweredOff'
00:00:04.339683 GUI: Passing request to close Runtime UI from machine-logic to UI session.
00:00:04.592670 GUI: UIMachineViewNormal::resendSizeHint: Restoring guest size-hint for screen 0 to 800x600
00:00:04.592704 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={ab4164db-c13e-4dab-842d-61ee3f0c1e87} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={The console is not powered up}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
00:00:04.592768 GUI: Aborting startup due to invalid machine state detected: 1

[socratis]

I don't know if I mentioned it or not, but partial logs are not that helpful I'm afraid. Not at all actually. Please ZIP and attach the full log. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form.

[Tony Su]

thanks. the latest log attached.