VM crashing at start up - Guru Meditation Popup

[DerekMcCubbin]

I'm running DEBIAN Stretch 64 bit. The VM was originally setup and running from a server which my machine was hardwired into. I recently exported the VM to my local machine and reimported it into virtual box. I'm now getting an issue where the VM boots but nothing prints on the the console after selecting the OS on the bios menu. It then crashes and a Guru Meditation Popup is displayed.

The VM settings were unchanged. I attached the logs and the popup that is displayed.

[scottgus1]

The tell-tale line is just before the Guru Meditation:

00:00:08.145112 IEM: rdmsr(0x122) -> #GP(0)
00:00:09.321263 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'
00:00:09.321301 Console: Machine state changed to 'GuruMeditation'
00:00:09.321438 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:00:09.321439 !!
00:00:09.321439 !!         VCPU1: Guru Meditation 1155 (VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT)

Your CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9850H is a 2nd quarter 2019 device that is having issues with Virtualbox lately.

Start reading here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=95783&start=15

The workaround is to either:
Downgrade Virtualbox to 6.0.6 viewtopic.php?f=2&t=95783&start=15#p465436

or:

Fake the CPU ID to the guest viewtopic.php?f=2&t=95783&start=30#p467326, viewtopic.php?f=6&t=96256#p467023

Keep track of what you did so you can undo it later. Here's the Bugtracker ticket to watch: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19169

[scottgus1]

Also, switch your video controller. You're using the VboxSVGA for Windows guests. Linux guests are supposed to use VMSVGA.

[DerekMcCubbin]

Thanks for the reply. I ended up upgrading my VB version from 6.1.2 to 6.1.4 and that seemed to fix the issue.

[scottgus1]

Excellent! I'll update my copy pasta on this to show 6.1.4 is supposed to fix this.

[DerekMcCubbin]

Great. I just want to be clear it was originally working with 6.1.2 so if this issue shows reappears with 6.1.4 I'll post in this thread so you can be aware. At that point ill prob downgrade to the version you suggested.