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leonchik1976
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:49 pm    Post subject: Launching VirtualBox VM causes host to freeze Reply with quote

Hi, when i try to launch VM in VirtualBox, the host itself completely freezes. Tried to reinstall VirtualBox, reinstall virtualbox-modules - nothing helped.
In VBoxSVC.log i can see an error:

Failed to open "/dev/vboxdrvu", errno=13, rc=VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE

though it exists:
$ ls -l /dev/vboxdrvu
crw------- 1 root root 10, 122 Sep 1 18:34 /dev/vboxdrvu

and also module is loaded:
$ lsmod | grep vbox
vboxnetflt 36864 0
vboxnetadp 24576 0
vboxdrv 626688 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt

Exactly same issue on 2 different machines. what can i check to try to debug the issue?

also checked - my user in vboxusers group
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2023 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try
Code:

chown vboxusers:vboxusers /dev/vbox*

What is the output of
Code:

grep -r vbox /etc/udev/

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

alamahant wrote:
Try
Code:

chown vboxusers:vboxusers /dev/vbox*

What is the output of
Code:

grep -r vbox /etc/udev/


it doesn't help, and after reboot it reverts back:
# ls -l /dev/vbox*
crw------- 1 root root 10, 123 Sep 8 10:00 /dev/vboxdrv
crw------- 1 root root 10, 122 Sep 8 10:00 /dev/vboxdrvu
crw------- 1 root root 10, 121 Sep 8 10:00 /dev/vboxnetctl


grep -r vbox /etc/udev/
returns nothing
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try
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chmod 666  /dev/vbox*


There should have been udev rules created for these devices.I wonder why they weren't.
According to vbox ebuild
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if use udev; then
local udevdir="$(get_udevdir)"
local udev_file="VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh"
local rules_file="10-virtualbox.rules"

insinto ${udevdir}
doins ${udev_file}
fowners root:vboxusers ${udevdir}/${udev_file}
fperms 0750 ${udevdir}/${udev_file}

insinto ${udevdir}/rules.d
sed "s@%UDEVDIR%@${udevdir}@" "${FILESDIR}"/${rules_file} \
> "${T}"/${rules_file} || die
doins "${T}"/${rules_file}
fi

Are you not using udev?
Is there any init script vbox-related in /etc/init.d
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

alamahant wrote:
Try
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chmod 666  /dev/vbox*


There should have been udev rules created for these devices.I wonder why they weren't.
According to vbox ebuild
Quote:

if use udev; then
local udevdir="$(get_udevdir)"
local udev_file="VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh"
local rules_file="10-virtualbox.rules"

insinto ${udevdir}
doins ${udev_file}
fowners root:vboxusers ${udevdir}/${udev_file}
fperms 0750 ${udevdir}/${udev_file}

insinto ${udevdir}/rules.d
sed "s@%UDEVDIR%@${udevdir}@" "${FILESDIR}"/${rules_file} \
> "${T}"/${rules_file} || die
doins "${T}"/${rules_file}
fi

Are you not using udev?
Is there any init script vbox-related in /etc/init.d
?


# ls -l /etc/init.d/vbox*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1137 Sep 8 10:18 /etc/init.d/vboxinit-5.2.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 646 Sep 8 09:36 /etc/init.d/vboxwebsrv


firstly - i changed permissions and ownership:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root vboxusers 10, 123 Sep 10 08:38 /dev/vboxdrv
crw-rw-rw- 1 root vboxusers 10, 122 Sep 10 08:38 /dev/vboxdrvu
crw-rw-rw- 1 root vboxusers 10, 121 Sep 10 08:38 /dev/vboxnetctl


then - i started VirtualBox - i don't see anymore permissions related errors.
After creating some dummy VM (without any configuration - just create VM, without changing anything) - i see this in log:
ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE (0x80bb0002) aIID={300763af-5d6b-46e6-aa96-273eac15538a} aComponent={MachineWrap} aText={The machine is not mutable (state is PoweredOff)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001) aIID={5bfd8965-b81b-469f-8649-f717ce97a5d5} aComponent={NvramStoreWrap} aText={The UEFI NVRAM file is not existing for this machine.}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0

The moment i started this VM - the whole host freezes, and i had to hard reset it. After reboot - all permissions reverted back, and no logs were added to VBoxSVC.log
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VirtualBox built with USE=udev

# emerge app-emulation/virtualbox -pvq
[ebuild R ] app-emulation/virtualbox-7.0.10-r1 USE="alsa dbus doc dtrace gui java lvm nls opengl pam pulseaudio python sdk sdl udev vboxwebsrv vde vnc -debug (-pch)" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_11 -python3_10"
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello leonchik1976,

have you found a solution for this problem? I have this problem, too, but don't know the reason for it. For many years VirtualBox worked without any problem.

Thanks and best regards,
Manfred
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Orvas wrote:
Hello leonchik1976,

have you found a solution for this problem? I have this problem, too, but don't know the reason for it. For many years VirtualBox worked without any problem.

Thanks and best regards,
Manfred


nope, same issue on several machines
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does the kernel panic to cause this freeze? Is there anything written to the kernel's console? Beware that a sufficiently hard freeze may kill syslog before it can write to a file, so you need to read the data off the console.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 16, 2024 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hu wrote:
Does the kernel panic to cause this freeze? Is there anything written to the kernel's console? Beware that a sufficiently hard freeze may kill syslog before it can write to a file, so you need to read the data off the console.


the moment you start VM (any VM - just create any VM - even without changing it's parameter) - the system freezes completely.
same issue on 3 different intel machines
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 17, 2024 1:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you start a VM from the VT1 text console ? (CTL-ALT-F1)
If it's a kernel panic it should vomit a dying message on the console.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 22, 2024 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sublogic wrote:
Can you start a VM from the VT1 text console ? (CTL-ALT-F1)
If it's a kernel panic it should vomit a dying message on the console.


it prints Waiting for VM to power on .... and everything freezes
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 09, 2024 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

When starting a virtual machine, the PC freezes immediately. I've started "dmesg -w" in a terminal and took a picture with the smartphone and extracted the text with Google Lens. These five lines are the last I saw after starting the VM:

Code:
[289.283991] SUPROGipMap: fGetGipCpu=0x1b
[290.947884] vboxdrv: 00000000905680cb VMMRO.ro
[291.069773] vboxdrv: 00000000631ce46e VBoxDDR0.ro
[291.117369] VBoxNetFlt: attached to 'enp0s31f6' / 9c:5c:8e:71:94:be
[291.160945] device enp0s31f6 entered promiscuous mode
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2024 5:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

leonchik1976 wrote:
sublogic wrote:
Can you start a VM from the VT1 text console ? (CTL-ALT-F1)
If it's a kernel panic it should vomit a dying message on the console.


it prints Waiting for VM to power on .... and everything freezes


Try moving your VM to another internal drive. I encountered a similar issue, running a VirtualBox Win 11 VM on my Gentoo host PC. Win 11 runs fine, but Gentoo processes hang. I have to hold the power button to turn off my PC. My solution was moving the VirtualBox VM folder from my root partition (containing /home) to a second internal drive.

Note: This solution did not fix the same issue running a VMware Workstation Win 11 VM.

Details: [WORKAROUND] VirtualBox and VMware Workstation Both Hang PC
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

have same issue on 3 different machines
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2024 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same setup as leonchik1976, no problems at all here.

Note udevdir:
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/lib/udev/rules.d/10-virtualbox.rules


I found this https://bugs.gentoo.org/768297 and this https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8690935.html?sid=99d68bb6998eaf888e4056efb93b5471. Have you checked ownership of /dev (here: 755 root:root)?

What about the VBox.log file as per https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch12.html?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2024 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

in the meantime I have found the reason for this problem in my case. I have used an old Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card with the proprietary Nvidia driver for several years, without having any problems! But in the meantime Nvidia has stopped the support for this card and I was not able to switch to an up-to-date kernel version. Because I wanted to switch from X to Wayland to use a different scaling factor for my two monitors, I have tried the Nouveau open source driver, but with this my PC crashed so heavily that even the hardware reset button was not able to restart the system (reproducible, I have absolutely no idea how this is possible!). At this point I have removed the graphics card and switched to the onboard graphics of my Intel Skylake CPU, and until today I didn't have a single crash. And of course, VirtualBox is running again as if nothing had ever happened.

tl;dr: Without my old Nvidia graphics card my system with VirtualBox is absolutely stable again.
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