Virtual box stops booting and cannot open BIOS

[ruthwang]

The VT-x is enabled. Following is the log.


Last time when this happened restarting the whole laptop somehow fixed it and BIOS could be opened. But this time I have no idea how to fix it. Please help!!!

[mpack]

A pasted bit o' log is useless to us. Zip the whole log and attach it to a post.

Also it's the VM log we need (VBox.log from inside the VM folder /Logs subfolder), not the VM manager log. Don't grab the log while the VM is still running, i.e. when the VM window is still open.

I'm not at all sure what "cannot open BIOS" means. There is no user interface on the VirtualBox VM BIOS, all settings are changed using the Manager.

[ruthwang]

A pasted bit o' log is useless to us. Zip the whole log and attach it to a post.

Also it's the VM log we need (VBox.log from inside the VM folder /Logs subfolder), not the VM manager log. Don't grab the log while the VM is still running, i.e. when the VM window is still open.

I'm not at all sure what "cannot open BIOS" means. There is no user interface on the VirtualBox VM BIOS, all settings are changed using the Manager.

Thanks for the reply! I attached the new log and (hopefully) it is the right one.

[mpack]

You need to free up some host RAM, you will struggle to run any modern OS with only 2.5GB available, if you then allocate 2.0GB to the VM.

Install the Extension Pack on the host (not the same as the Guest Additions, which go in the guest).

Change display RAM to 64MB.

Change vCPU (cores) allocation to 2.