Guru Meditation -4014 (VERR_VMX_INVALID_GUEST_STATE)

[legacy92]

I am utterly stuck I have tried VMware with Win 10 Win 7, Parallels with Win 10 Win 7 & chrome and now Virtual Box with Win 7 and 10. All have been done wiht Physical DVDs and ISO image files in each instance as soon as i have set up and it goes to attempt to install the OS and it crashes or hangs on each product. Given it is happening on each product i am thinking is must be my IMAC settings. I have a 27 Inch 10,3 IMac I5 2009 12 Gb ram.

In my log I have run Microsofts Win 10 Edge Testing Image that was imported Windows developed website
VirtualBox VM 5.0.12 r104815 darwin.amd64 (Dec 18 2015 17:29:37) release log

Any help greatly appreciated. Log Files attached had to cull what i didn't think was relevant as file size was 162kb

This is in System Log if the helps

Jan 6 20:22:11 LanceMogansiMac VirtualBoxVM[11780]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.2 instead of 10.11.2. This is not a bug in Gestalt -- it is a documented limitation. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
Call location:
Jan 6 20:22:11 LanceMogansiMac VirtualBoxVM[11780]: 0 CarbonCore 0x00007fff89ea2c9b ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 113
Jan 6 20:22:11 LanceMogansiMac VirtualBoxVM[11780]: 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff97ff733f _dispatch_client_callout + 8
Jan 6 20:22:11 LanceMogansiMac VirtualBoxVM[11780]: 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff97ff7237 dispatch_once_f + 67
Jan 6 20:22:11 LanceMogansiMac VirtualBoxVM[11780]: 3 CarbonCore 0x00007fff89e2eb47 _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 987
Jan 6 20:22:11 LanceMogansiMac VirtualBoxVM[11780]: 4 CarbonCore 0x00007fff89e2dddb Gestalt + 139
Jan 6 20:22:11 LanceMogansiMac VirtualBoxVM[11780]: 5 QtCoreVBox 0x000000010d468766 QtCoreVBox + 14182
Jan 6 20:22:11 LanceMogansiMac VirtualBoxVM[11780]: 6 ??? 0x00007fff6bce2f2b 0x0 + 140735002062635
Jan 6 20:22:11 LanceMogansiMac kernel[0]: VirtualBoxVM[11780] triggered unnest of range 0x7fff8d600000->0x7fff8d800000 of DYLD shared region in VM map 0x24480b13f341b0f3. While not abnormal for debuggers, this increases system memory footprint until the target exits.
Jan 6 20:22:15 LanceMogansiMac kernel[0]: VBoxDrv: host_vmxon -> vmx_use_count=1 rc=0
Jan 6 20:22:15 LanceMogansiMac kernel[0]: VBoxDrv: host_vmxoff -> vmx_use_count=0
Jan 6 20:22:15 LanceMogansiMac kernel[0]: vboxdrv: ffffff91a8585020 VMMR0.r0
Jan 6 20:22:15 LanceMogansiMac kernel[0]: vboxdrv: ffffff91a8721020 VBoxDDR0.r0
Jan 6 20:22:15 LanceMogansiMac kernel[0]: vboxdrv: ffffff8181dd7020 VBoxDD2R0.r0
Jan 6 20:22:15 LanceMogansiMac kernel[0]: VBoxDrv: host_vmxon -> vmx_use_count=1 rc=0
Jan 6 20:22:15 LanceMogansiMac WindowServer[203]: _CGXRemoveWindowFromWindowMovementGroup: window 0xf4a is not attached to window 0xf76
Jan 6 20:22:15 LanceMogansiMac WindowServer[203]: _CGXRemoveWindowFromWindowMovementGroup: window 0xf78 is not attached to window 0xf79
Jan 6 20:22:45 LanceMogansiMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.quicklook[11783]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
Jan 6 20:23:01 LanceMogansiMac iconservicesagent[336]: -[ISGenerateImageOp generateImageWithCompletion:] Failed to composit image for descriptor <ISBindingImageDescriptor: 0x7fb33270b3c0>.
Jan 6 20:23:01 LanceMogansiMac quicklookd[11783]: Error returned from iconservicesagent: (null)
Jan 6 20:23:06 LanceMogansiMac Console[11786]: Failed to connect (_consoleX) outlet from (NSApplication) to (ConsoleX): missing setter or instance variable
Jan 6 20:23:19 LanceMogansiMac WindowServer[203]: _CGXGetWindowMovementGroup: Operation on a window 0x373 requiring rights 0x5 by caller Dashboard
Jan 6 20:26:54 LanceMogansiMac kernel[0]: process VirtualBoxVM[11780] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 158; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 45057
Jan 6 20:26:55 LanceMogansiMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[11792]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.ReportCrash.DirectoryService
Jan 6 20:26:55 LanceMogansiMac ReportCrash[11792]: Invoking spindump for pid=11780 wakeups_rate=158 duration=285 because of excessive wakeups
Jan 6 20:27:02 LanceMogansiMac spindump[383]: Saved wakeups_resource.diag report for VirtualBoxVM version 5.0.12 (5.0.12) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VirtualBoxVM_2016-01-06-202702_Lance-Morgans-iMac.wakeups_resource.diag

[mpack]

Welcome to the VirtualBox Forums. Unfortunately there are a couple of problems with your first post.

You posted in "OS X Guests". However this is a Win10 guest, not an OS X guest. Moving this topic to "Windows Guests".

Also missing IMHO is a clear statement of the problem, including precise error messages. The topic title is poor as well - it gives no indication of why anyone should want to view this topic.

[mpack]

As to your problem, the error was :-

00:00:06.118077 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:00:06.118077 !!
00:00:06.118078 !! Guru Meditation -4014 (VERR_VMX_INVALID_GUEST_STATE)
00:00:06.129496 !!
00:00:06.129550 !!
00:00:06.129551 !! {mappings, <NULL>}
00:00:06.129554 !!
00:00:06.129573

VMX is the hardware acceleration feature (AKA VT-x). If it's in an invalid state then my guess is that that something else may be using it.

[socratis]

Yes, but the OP is on a Mac running OSX. Kind of difficult, but not impossible.

@legacy92 : Do you have any antivirus, virtualization or any 3rd party programs worth mentioning?

[legacy92]

No anti virus have parallels and VMware but not running at same time I am using virtual box. I run parallels nfts to write nfts files. Clean my Mac, air parrot, team viewer, Dropbox etc

[socratis]

Run the following three commands in a Terminal:

    system_profiler SPExtensionsDataType > Profiler.txt
    zip Profiler.zip Profiler.txt
    rm Profiler.txt

You'll end up with a "Profiler.zip" in the directory where you run the commands. Attach it here with your reply (see the "Upload attachment" at the end of the form).

[legacy92]

As attached

[socratis]

OK, I took a look at the output of the system profiler. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the installation of 10.11 that you have is an update, not a clean install. Not sure if this could lead to problems or not, but I'm just throwing it out there. Having said that, here are some kexts that I found installed in your system and that are non-Apple made.

• [*]APExtFramebuffer, Signed by: Developer ID Application: Squirrels LLC (67X2M9MT5G)
  [*]AirParrotDriver,  Signed by: Not Signed
  [*]Terminus,         Signed by: Not Signed
  [*]ufsd_NTFS,        Signed by: Developer ID Application: Paragon Software GmbH (LSJ6YVK468)

From these ones, the "APExtFramebuffer" is from Squirrels for the AirParrot. The "Terminus" one is a little bit shaky, but it seems that it comes with Roxio. There are a lot of reports on the web about issues caused by this one. I'm not 100% sure that any of these takes over VT-x. One thing I'm sure about is that something is wrong/conflicting with your setup.

[legacy92]

Thanks for that if I did a clean install of OS X onto a USB and only installed virtual box and boot to USB and try to install win 10. If I don't get the error that will prove it is one of my third party apps as you suspect. If I get a error then I suppose it's OS X/Mac hardware that is causing the problem. If you think that is a good idea I will try in the morning and also get the error log if that occurs.

Thoughts?

Ps also the system was a clean install latest OS X but then used time machine to transfer profile settings, files, apps etc. so not really clean after that I suppose.

[socratis]

From the searches I did, only one more case of a Mac having a VTX-related Guru meditation showed up. So, I would suspect one of the 3rd party apps. Don't know / can't tell you which one might be the culprit. But, it doesn't hurt to try with a fresh install. After that (and what I believe is going to be a no-problem installation) you should start looking one by one your apps to see which one might interfere.

[legacy92]

Mmmm interesting on a clean install with nothing but Vbox installed and Microsofts Developer Image used I still got the same error. That is very surprising. Looks like with my iMac Machine 10,3 with the latest OSX on clean install is somehow causing a conflict.
Not to sure where to go to from here I have Windows Bootcamp so will just have to use that. Always a bit of a pain as I use bit locker encryption and would have been nice to start win 10 in VM and slide across to Apple side as opposed to having to hard boot in to Win 10.
Thanks for your time Socratis I think I will call is quits and wait/hope that futures software updates in VMware, Parallels or VBox somehow fix the issue.