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#1 2016-06-06 11:45:23

christooss
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Registered: 2008-08-18
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[Solved] Virtualbox crashing when installing guest OS

I have tried to install multiple different OSs. From Windows 2008, Kali Linux, Ubuntu and Mint. During the installation period all of them crash with some sort of error.

This is is VBox.log for Windows 2008
This is for Kali Linux 2016

Version of Virtualbox is 5.0.20

I have tried to install .vdis to different storage (External USB, Windows NTFS partition and Arch EXT4) but to no avail. Weird thing I found out is that all of the files created in VMs folders are root owned eventhough I run Virtualbox as normal user. This might be a source of the issue but I don't know where to check and what.

/media/windows/vmji/Kali Linux$ ls -al
total 56
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    4096 Jun  5 23:54 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root       0 Jun  6 00:11 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7395 Jun  5 23:54 'Kali Linux.vbox'
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7204 Jun  5 23:54 'Kali Linux.vbox-prev'
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2097152 Jun  5 23:54 'Kali Linux.vdi'
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root       0 Jun  5 23:54 Logs

This is the error Windows 2008 outputs on the screen

I tried removing and adding Guest additions. edit: I have searched windows 2008 error but the problems are usually not choosing the right tipe of OS (win 8.0 vs win 8.1) and when trying 32bit vs 64bit versions of 2008 when starting the vdi creation 32bit option just nagged that 64bit is trying to be installed etc.

Any help would be appriciated cause I'm really sruck with these isuess.

Last edited by christooss (2016-06-08 14:24:56)

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#2 2016-06-06 15:08:34

ewaller
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Re: [Solved] Virtualbox crashing when installing guest OS

I think the root ownership issues are because of the filesystem.  Is your example NTFS?
Unfortunately, I can not divine anything from those logs.
Try the simple case.  Put the virtual disk in your $HOME and ensure that it is your EXT filesystem.
I assume this is a 64bit Arch Linux host.  Is the VM a 32 bit or a 64bit machine?
Does the install media boot for Ubuntu or Kali?  I choose to deliberately ignore Windows.  I don't want to go down that rabbit hole.
How are you booting? Are you mounting the install iso as a DVD/CD in the VM? Or are you booting from a physical device like a thumbdrive?


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#3 2016-06-08 14:24:39

christooss
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Registered: 2008-08-18
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Re: [Solved] Virtualbox crashing when installing guest OS

Yeah the root problem was with nonExt4 filesystems. I have solved this now. Kali and all Linux boxes now boot and install without problem. When I tried it before I just thought it will install to ext4 partition but I forgot to change the setting before trying.

Windows 2008 problem still persist but that is probably just the media (iso). I installed Win7 without probelm so I will mark this thread as solved. Thanks for your help.

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