Opened 15 months ago
Last modified 15 months ago
#21987 new defect
Guest Kali Linux corrupts VHD on startup
| Reported by: | md-12345 | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | virtual disk | Version: | VirtualBox-7.0.8 |
| Keywords: | corrupt, startup, boot, crash | Cc: | md-12345 |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Windows |
Description
Description
I am currently encountering an error whereupon the guest Kali Linux VM corrupts itself on startup. The story of which is rather confusing. I was running the VM fine until I tried to open Firefox, whereupon it began to lag. This is expected as I was running BurpSuite, Android Studio and a couple of other somewhat intensive programs in the background. However, the screen blacked out after about 30 seconds but the VM windows didn't crash or close. After a while of it being like this, I force powered off the VM and tried to restart it. This resulted in a weird error as shown in the attached screenshot everytime I load the VM.
What I've tried I tried reverting to a recent snapshot but this caused the VM to behave strangely (see screenshot of root terminal) and eventually go back to the black screen after about a minute. This is why I suspect it's a booting issue and not a hard drive issue.
What I would expect to happen VM boots fine after reverting back to the snapshot or crashes in someway with a hardware related error.
Additional Notes
- This only seems to happen on my Kali VM and it's happen twice in the past 6 months. Virtualbox and extensions versions have not changed
- The VM is a Kali Linux VM. My host is Windows 11 Enterprise with Virtualisation Enabled.
- Happy to add more information on request
Attachments (6)
Change History (8)
by , 15 months ago
by , 15 months ago
Black screen after 30 seconds of revertion and VM resumption
by , 15 months ago
Weird error in root terminal when trying to run a simple ls command
by , 15 months ago
| Attachment: | Kali-2024-02-13-13-42-03.log added |
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Log file of the VM straight after running the restored snapshot. Note "DEK for this disk is missing" and "Invalid machine state Paused when checking if the guest entered the ACPI mode" errors
by , 15 months ago
| Attachment: | Kali-2024-02-13-13-49-05.log added |
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Log file of the VM straight after restoring to the "safe" snapshot. Note the weird partition destruction message at the end of the log
comment:1 by , 15 months ago
I'm hopefully going to get permission to upgrade my virtualbox install and extension pack to the latest LTS versions tomorrow. I'll update in here if that fixes it
comment:2 by , 15 months ago
Updating to virtualbox 7.0.14 and extension pack 7.0.14 does not fix this issue
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Error on restart after revertion to snapshot