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tantrik

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Registered: 2020-05-22

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can't upgrade guest OS in VirtualBox

Hi all,

Super noob here, so please bear with me. I just moved to Arch from Ubuntu, and I am having touble upgrading my Kali and Lubuntu guest OS on my virtualbox. I don't remember this being a problem with VirtualBox on my Ubuntu host.

The update (apt update) goes fine. The upgrade (apt upgrade) manages to get all the packages (therefore not a connection issue) but gets stuck while unpacking them (it's always linux-headers I think). I tried upgrading Kali, then tried it with Lubuntu, but neither worked. Has anyone else experienced this?

I uninstalled and reinstalled Virtualbox as well, but that did not change anything.

I downloaded virtualbox, virtualbox-host-dmks and  virtualbox-guest-iso using pacman and VirtualBox Extension Pack directly from the website.

Thanks in advance!

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,456

Re: can't upgrade guest OS in VirtualBox

If it's only a specific package that gets hung up on a guest VM, and others update fine, then it's extremely unlikely that this is a Arch host issue. If there's an issue with your Arch host VB, then you would have much larger issues such as the guest crashing, not starting, etc. Are you running the VB guest utils on those guests? I assume those guest distros have their own version of the VB guest utils.

tantrik

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Registered: 2020-05-22

Posts: 3

Re: can't upgrade guest OS in VirtualBox

looks like it's not specific to one pacakage. I left the upgrading process running overnight and it turns out that it got stuck on a different package and it was only 32% after 7 hours. I killed it and deleted the machines. Not sure what to do now.

And yes, i did install guest utils (virtualbox-guest-x11).

Could it be something wrong with my system or my hardware that is not allowing the VB to function properly?

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

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Re: can't upgrade guest OS in VirtualBox

Are the VM guests running fine other than during the updates? Do you have a proper Internet connection when you run a browser or curl/wget on the guest?

Also be sure that the guest utils are actually working on the guests. For example, are things like clipboard sharing, shared folders, etc. working?

tantrik

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Registered: 2020-05-22

Posts: 3

Re: can't upgrade guest OS in VirtualBox

hey twelveeighty,

I deleted both of the the machines, and i haven't botherd to start new ones, but they were acting a little off. They are very slow, and the terminal would just dissappear by itself in one of them. Also other small things like cursor printing at two different spots monentarily etc.

I did a journalctl -p 3 and looks like i have other problems going on as well.

AMD-Vi: [Firmware Bug]: : IOAPIC[4] not in IVRS table
AMD-Vi: [Firmware Bug]: : IOAPIC[5] not in IVRS table
AMD-Vi: [Firmware Bug]: : No southbridge IOAPIC found
AMD-Vi: Disabling interrupt remapping
tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: can't request region for resource [mem 0xddd21000-0xddd24fff]
Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: firmware file rtl_bt/rtl8821a_fw.bin not found
rtlwifi: Selected firmware is not available
rtlwifi: Selected firmware is not available
amdgpu 0000:00:01.0: gfx8: Failed to load firmware "amdgpu/carrizo_pfp.bin"
[drm:gfx_v8_0_sw_init.cold [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Failed to load gfx firmware!

I plan to look into these before worrying about VMs for right now. Let me know if you think something here might have caused the VMs to misbehave or if you have any suggestions. Thanks a bunch!

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: can't upgrade guest OS in VirtualBox

something here might have caused the VMs to misbehave

I don't think so but I don't know anything about VirtualBox (I wouldn't use that piece of crap if you paid me). What I do know is that you need to install the linux-firmware and amd-ucode packages (and configure the µcode to be loaded correctly at boot).

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Skunky

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Registered: 2018-01-25

Posts: 231

Re: can't upgrade guest OS in VirtualBox

Do you have "Use host I/O cache" disabled? You can find it in the vm settings -> storage -> controller