Post-install Reboot of OL8 kernel panic - kill init!

[Mindanser]

When the OL8.6 Guest OS install completes, it needs to reboot. I get the kernel panic shown in the attachment. I also attached the log file from a recent run.

Guest has 16GB RAM and 36GB disk. All of it was autoconfigured by the OL8.6 installation. Based on a BB suggestion, I tried two CPU's but got the same error.

I tried running the OL8.6 Rescue image and it panics the same way. Just upgraded to VBox 6.1.40, but that didn't change the results.

Two different Windows 2012 guests run ok on this Windows 11 Host, but those were originally created some years ago. Windows 11 Host has 32 GB of memory and 3 TB storage on the D:\ drive that the Guest VDI and machine reside on.

I'm not a Linux Admin and don't know what other things I can try. I read a post here about enabling or disabling hyperthreading and hardware virtualization, but not sure if that might be a source of the problem.

Thanks for any and all help.

[Mindanser]

Kernel Panic VBox Mgr log file

[Mindanser]

OL8 Console Kernel Panic screenshot

[galitsyn]

Hi Mindanser,

Have you tried reducing guest RAM? From your log I see that it does not fit available host RAM.

[Mindanser]

Hey galitsyn,

I'll give that a shot.

Thanks! MD

[Mindanser]

Tried it with 12535MB and got the same Kernel Panic.

Log attached here.

[Mindanser]

Reduced Guest Ram to 12535MB

[Mindanser]

You can close this ticket.

I created a new OL8 VM using the OracleLinux-R8-U6-x86_64-dvd.iso from ​https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-isos.html and installed from local media.

That machine comes up properly and runs as expected.

I deleted this VM so can't do any testing to find the root cause. It seems that the install using V1020894-01.iso is bad somehow.