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killvanrea

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Registered: 2013-10-04

Posts: 32

Virtualbox 6.1.4 guests not working with kernel 5.5.9

Hello
since the last two weeks my virtualbox machine stopped working with the following error

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine XP-Inpa.

The virtual machine 'XP-Inpa' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df}

I've searched the error code online and found some old topics but no one of them helped me.  So far I've try:
Realod kernel modules
Check the file ~/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml and replace it with ***-prev
Setup new empty machine
Replace     virtualbox-host-modules-arch with virtualbox-host-dkms
Purge virtualbox and all modules and conf file. Delete all virtualbox stuff under .config .local /etc ... And install it again

But none of that helps and I need help
So here is some system info

--(Thu,10:07:$)-- lsmod | grep vbo*
vboxnetflt             32768  0
vboxnetadp             28672  0
vboxdrv               524288  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt

--(Thu,10:07:$)-- pacman -Qs linux headers
local/linux-api-headers 5.4.17-1
    Kernel headers sanitized for use in userspace
local/linux-headers 5.5.9.arch1-2
    Headers and scripts for building modules for the Linux kernel

--(Thu,10:11:$)-- uname -a
Linux vanrea-arch 5.5.9-arch1-2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 12 Mar 2020 23:01:33 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 6.1.4 r136177

--(Thu,10:28:$)-- ls ~/.config/VirtualBox/Virtual*
-rw------- 1 vanrea users 1.9K Mar 19 10:23 /home/vanrea/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml
-rw------- 1 vanrea users 1.8K Mar 19 10:23 /home/vanrea/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml-prev

killvanrea

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Registered: 2013-10-04

Posts: 32

Re: Virtualbox 6.1.4 guests not working with kernel 5.5.9

Today updated to kernel 5.5.10 and still no change
Any suggestions

j.zelinka

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Registered: 2016-12-05

Posts: 8

Re: Virtualbox 6.1.4 guests not working with kernel 5.5.9

I have the same problem with Virtualbox 6.1.6 (packages virtualbox and virtualbox-host-dkms) with kernel 5.6.8-arch1-1. I tried also lts kernel (5.4.36-1), the older kernel (5.6.4) official Oracle distrubution of Virtualbox and beta version 6.1.0 from AUR but nothing works. I am not sure about the system update that has yielded the problem.  Even newly created virtual machines are not functional. The log subdirectory of the virtual machine is empty.

Jirka

hopeseekr

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Registered: 2019-12-11

Posts: 4

Re: Virtualbox 6.1.4 guests not working with kernel 5.5.9

It's totally not working. What can we do?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,318

Re: Virtualbox 6.1.4 guests not working with kernel 5.5.9

It's totally not working. What can we do?

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