[Solved] Guru Meditation Error in Kali Linux

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MIHAEL00
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[Solved] Guru Meditation Error in Kali Linux

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I started a loop proccess yesterday which I forgot to stop it. Now I can´t access to my virtual machine linux. the error message says mainly to check the log and gave me the root. I have attached the log here.

Base Memory: 2048MB

Boot Order: Hard Disk, Optical

Acceleration: VT-X/AMD-V, NESTED PAGING, PAE/NX, KVM PARAVIRTUALIZATION

I can´t access to the console to kill the pid or any process.

I have increased the resources of my VM but no changed. Please any could help me?? :shock:
here´s the log.

my version is virtualbox 6.1
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Re: Guru Meditation Error in Kali Linux

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Please use zip to compress logs, don't break the file into pieces.
MIHAEL00
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Re: Guru Meditation Error in Kali Linux

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mpack wrote:Please use zip to compress logs, don't break the file into pieces.
ok, attached zip
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Re: Guru Meditation Error in Kali Linux

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00:00:07.305664 !! VCPU0: Guru Meditation -4004 (VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR)
Most recently this error message is being seen by users who have installed superfluous third party AV (AVG or Avast) in their Win10 hosts, and this has recently been updated to a version that uses VT-x/AMD-v and so conflicts with VirtualBox. The AV has an option to run without using hardware virtualization.

p.s. An unrelated tip, I think your VM would run better if you gave it two CPU cores.
MIHAEL00
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Re: Guru Meditation Error in Kali Linux

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mpack wrote:
00:00:07.305664 !! VCPU0: Guru Meditation -4004 (VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR)
Most recently this error message is being seen by users who have installed superfluous third party AV (AVG or Avast) in their Win10 hosts, and this has recently been updated to a version that uses VT-x/AMD-v and so conflicts with VirtualBox. The AV has an option to run without using hardware virtualization.

p.s. An unrelated tip, I think your VM would run better if you gave it two CPU cores.
Thanks for help, I did both tips but still same problem :(
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Re: Guru Meditation Error in Kali Linux

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Trying uninstalling the third party AV entirely - Win10 is not Win95, it doesn't need third party help to be secure.

When you think you've done it then please provide VM logs: make sure the VM is fully shut down, then right click it in the manager UI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBoxHardening.log" and "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.
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Re: Guru Meditation Error in Kali Linux

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mpack wrote:Trying uninstalling the third party AV entirely - Win10 is not Win95, it doesn't need third party help to be secure.

When you think you've done it then please provide VM logs: make sure the VM is fully shut down, then right click it in the manager UI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBoxHardening.log" and "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.
It worked! Thank you very much!
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Re: Guru Meditation Error in Kali Linux

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Thanks for reporting back.
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