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Critical Error loading Kali Linux
Posted: 12. Sep 2019, 20:57
by beardy321
Hi,
Just tried to load up my first virtual box machine but im getting a critical error. Ive attached the logs.. any help is much appreciated.

Re: Critical Error loading Kali Linux
Posted: 12. Sep 2019, 21:09
by scottgus1
Your guest had a Guru Meditation:
00:00:56.219641 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:00:56.219642 !!
00:00:56.219643 !! VCPU0: Guru Meditation -2701 (VERR_VMM_RING0_ASSERTION)
00:00:56.219729 !!
00:00:56.219743 !!R0-Assertion Failed!!
Googling VERR_VMM_RING0_ASSERTION showed
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=82956 and
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=79837#p373236, suggesting another program might be trying to use VT-x, which is quite likely on your Windows 10 host (see
I have a 64bit host, but can't install 64bit guests Carefully go through each command in the 2nd & 3rd posts.)
Re: Critical Error loading Kali Linux
Posted: 13. Sep 2019, 12:51
by socratis
[quote=""VBox.log""]
00:00:07.425283 Full Name: "AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics"
[/quote]
[color=#3366CC]scottgus1[/color] wrote:suggesting another program might be trying to use VT-x
[color=#00AA00]socratis[/color] wrote:suggesting another program might be trying to use AMD-V
There... I fixed it for you...
But what's more "interesting" is the error message, I don't think I've seen this previously, maybe I've missed it:
[quote=""VBox.log""]
00:00:56.219099 !!R0-Assertion Failed!!
00:00:56.219100 Expression: <NULL>
00:00:56.219100 Location : F:\tinderbox\win-6.0\src\VBox\VMM\VMMAll\VMAll.cpp(282) int __cdecl VMSetRuntimeErrorV(struct VM *,unsigned int,const char *,const char *,char *)
00:00:56.219174 Congratulations! You will have the pleasure of debugging the RC/R0 path.
00:00:56.219197 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'
00:00:56.219230 Console: Machine state changed to 'GuruMeditation'
[/quote] Someone in there is a real sadist!

Re: Critical Error loading Kali Linux
Posted: 13. Sep 2019, 15:11
by scottgus1
socratis wrote:Congratulations! You will have the pleasure of debugging the RC/R0 path.
I've seen that before. Somebody got a funny bone!
Re: Critical Error loading Kali Linux
Posted: 2. May 2020, 01:52
by kevinMevin
Well, I changed the number of processors and enable PAE/Nx and it worked.