[Solved] Guest for Whonix XFCE Workstation stuck on boot process

[theknickname]

Hi,

I recently had set up a Whonix gateway-workstation pair of machines on VBox. My host OS is Fedora 31. The gateway configuration has gone smoothly but booting the workstation has "conjured" a Guru Meditation Critical Error.

Before I let the VBox log entail its error trail towards hopefully some solution, I would like to mention that the setup for the Whonix machines pair is comprised of a Whonix CLI gateway while the workstation is XFCE. I'm not sure whether it's even relevant - I did manage to operate on this setup while on Ubuntu.

Thank, guys!

[scottgus1]

00:00:01.967200 File system of '/home/***/VirtualBox VMs/***/Whonix-Workstation-XFCE/Snapshots' (snapshots) is unknown
00:00:01.967252 File system of '/home/***/VirtualBox VMs/***/Whonix-Workstation-XFCE/Whonix-XFCE-15.0.0.9.4-disk002.vdi' is ext4

I didn't know asterisks could be valid in a path on linux?

[theknickname]

00:00:01.967200 File system of '/home/***/VirtualBox VMs/***/Whonix-Workstation-XFCE/Snapshots' (snapshots) is unknown
00:00:01.967252 File system of '/home/***/VirtualBox VMs/***/Whonix-Workstation-XFCE/Whonix-XFCE-15.0.0.9.4-disk002.vdi' is ext4

I didn't know asterisks could be valid in a path on linux?

They're probably not I did modify the username in the log file.

[scottgus1]

Ok. Please see Is revealing a PC account user name bad? It isn't. And since the log has been modified we don't know if something else was unexpectedly modified too. Forum gurus will insist on an unmodified log.

Assuming you didn't bung up some essential data, the crash occurs just after Guest Additions loads, and it seems to me you are using the Linux distro's forked Guest Additions. Uninstall them and use the GAs that came with Virtualbox:


The guest meditated over VERR_PGM_HANDLER_NOT_FOUND. This error mostly affects save-stated guests. Your log, again assuming your edits didn't damage stuff, says the guest was started fresh, without a saved state. So for now I would not know why this happened, except for the Guest Additions.

One other thing, your host is very light on memory. I have heard of guests not loading because a whole block of the guest memory could not be allocated. Try a fresh reboot of the host?

Also try a test install in a fresh new guest.

[theknickname]

Thanks, scottgus1.

Quick update here - I did success in operating the guest by lowering the guest's memory allocation. A rookie mistake, really.