Mac M1 chip - Can't setup Ubuntu 22

[GuyOxnb]

Hey,

So I know the M1 support is in beta, but I can't even get past the installation.
I tried both versions 7.0.4 and 7.0.8.
I tried to install Ubuntu 23.04, as well as 22.04.2. The first screen appears - I can click on "start installation" (or something similar),
and then it crashes - I get the Guru Meditation error.

I attached the logs (part 1-3 due to size, most of the interesting things are in part 1) - the main errors are see are those:

00:00:00.662838 Firmware type: failed - VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
00:00:00.710604 CPUM: Failed to query microcode revision. rc=VERR_SUP_DRIVERLESS
00:00:01.050194 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005) aIID={6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8} aComponent={ConsoleWrap} aText={The VBoxGuestPropSvc service call failed with the error VERR_HGCM_SERVICE_NOT_FOUND}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-2900

I saw some posts in the forum discussing issues with docker being enabled, etc.
I can turn docker desktop off while running virtual box, but I can't delete it altogether (same for k8s infra)
Is that the issue? or is it something else?

Thank you

[multiOS]

VirtualBox 7.0.8 User Guide:Para 2.4:

The macOS/Arm64 installer package for Apple silicon platform is available as a Developer Preview release. This package represents a work in progress project and the performance is very modest.

Please note the "very modest". IME you might get early 32-bit OS working perhaps up to Windows XP or a 32-bit Linux distro of a similar vintage, but not yet more recent releases and not 64-bit. The VirtualBox developers appear to have focussed their early development activity at opposite end to other similar virtualisation software, i.e. emulation/translation for x86 OS, starting with testing 32-bit capability, whereas others appear to have started with virtualisation only of ARM OS versions on Mac M1/M2, with x86 emulation as a secondary, perhaps distant, objective; but all of the current virtualisation software I have explored have issues with performance and/or a limited range of hardware support/performance than is possible with x86 on x86.

Currently, you might be able to install Ubuntu on a different virtualisation software product, but only if you install an ARM version, not x86.