Difficulties running Linux VMs on macOS 10.15.3

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Difficulties running Linux VMs on macOS 10.15.3

Post by SlaunchaMan »

I’m running macOS 10.15.3 and VirtualBox 6.1.4. Intermittently Linux VMs will either fail to boot, immediately going to the “aborted” state, or they will crash internally, as in this screenshot and log. Not sure what’s causing it.
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Re: Difficulties running Linux VMs on macOS 10.15.3

Post by scottgus1 »

In this log there does not appear to be any indication of a Virtualbox crash. Troubleshoot the guest problems inside the guest OS.Maybe there's an internal syslog?

When you get a 'fail to boot, immediately going to aborted' run, zip and post that log.
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Re: Difficulties running Linux VMs on macOS 10.15.3

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Here’s a log from the boot, then immediately abort case.
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Re: Difficulties running Linux VMs on macOS 10.15.3

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00:00:02.030924 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000000800000 (8 388 608, 8 MB)
Seriously? When's the last time you had a graphics card with only 8MB RAM on it?

That is not the default, so you would have had to change it, then ignore the warnings.
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Re: Difficulties running Linux VMs on macOS 10.15.3

Post by SlaunchaMan »

This VM is created from a Vagrantfile I didn't make, and that process doesn't emit any warnings. What's the default?
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Re: Difficulties running Linux VMs on macOS 10.15.3

Post by mpack »

We don't support Vagrant here, we only support the official VirtualBox build and installer. I notice that "Ubuntu.vdi" is in the wrong place too, this could explain it.

You have plenty of RAM, so I'd set graphics RAM to 128MB.
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