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dooku

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Registered: 2014-08-07

Posts: 2

Virtualbox - Installed VM will not start

Hi,
although I'm satisfied Arch user for quite long time, this is the first time I feel need to ask on this forum. So, please, bear with me

I followed installation instructions on  Arch wiki:

pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules virtualbox
modprobe vboxdrv

Since I am using stock kernel, this should be sufficient (according to the guide). Then I ran virtualbox, successfully installed Ubuntu 64-bit and rebooted VM. All went ok. However, after turning the VM off, I am not able to turn it on again - VBox freezes after showing two "Starting mirtual machine" dialogues, similarly as in this post. No dmesg output, vbox log here. I tried this process several times, strangely, sometimes the system booted, but mostly I got stuck again.

My system is 64-bit Intel, package versions:

linux 3.15.8-1
virtualbox 4.3.14-3
virtualbox-host-modules 4.3.14-3

Not sure if its important, but I chose 2 GB RAM and 20 GB HDD space for VM.

Last edited by dooku (2014-08-08 06:22:07)