I have just built a new PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800x3d and none of my virtual machines are working anymore. They freeze when starting up with no error. They don't always freeze at the same place and sometimes (rarely) they do manage to start. It seems totally random.

This is a fresh install of Windows 11 with almost nothing else installed. I'm using the latest version of VirtualBox (7.1.4) and I have enabled SVM in the BIOS. HyperV is disabled in Windows and I have installed the host extensions.

Any ideas what I can check?

Hey r/virtualbox,

I recently switched from Windows to macOS and tried running my VM, but I'm getting this error:

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Failed to open a session for the virtual machine vm. Callee RC:VBOX_E_PLATFORM_ARCH_NOT_SUPPORTED (0x80bb0012) mac pega vm

My VM is built on Linux Lite (based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS). I found some discussions suggesting that VirtualBox no longer supports Apple M series processors. Is this true? I use Apple Mac Mini M4.

Anyone have experience or workarounds for this issue?Thanks in advance for any help or insights!

Hi, I'm desperate

I just formatted my computer and reinstalled Windows 11. Note that I already had VBox running and working without problems before the formatting, so it's nothing from the BIOS.

After installing Windows 11, I installed VBox (7.1.4 R165100) and its extension package. To no one's surprise, green turtle appeared on an Ubuntu Server guest.

I have tried absolutely everything I have found on the internet, so here is a detailed list of the steps taken to try to fix the green turtle error and see if you can help me:

- First and most obvious, check that Hyper-V is disabled in Windows features. Not only that but absolutely all the boxes that have to do with virtualization. In windows features I only have checked: .Net, multimedia features, API support for compression, print PDF, Print Services, SMB Direct PowerShell 2.0 and Work Folders, nothing else is checked.

- Then I have tried to execute all the commands I have found on the internet concerning this topic:

* bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

* bcdedit /set vsmlaunchtype Off

* Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor -All

* DISM /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V

- I have checked that running “bcdedit” at the bottom I get that “hypervisorlaunchtype” is set to off

- I have also checked the “systeminfo” command and at the bottom I STILL get “Hyper-V requirements: Hypervisor detected. The features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.”

- I have disabled Secure Guard, Memory Integrity, Secure core (Core isolation) and Credential Guard.

- I turned off the computer, unplugged it for 10min to let it shut down to 100%.

- I have edited the regedit in “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard” and changed “WasEnabledBy” to 0

- I have edited gpo policies "Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Device Guard > Turn On Virtualization Based Security"

And I don't know what else to do, I need the virtual machines to study and I can't think of any other solution, please help.

I am running VB 6.1 on an Ubuntu 22.04 host.

The Microsoft page says that their images are not available since Oct 23, 2024 (link). I don't have a Win11 license, but I want to set up a VM to knock out some sandbox testing that will take 2-4 weeks.

I tried archive.org, but with the way that Microsoft has the images set up, I think they'll have already expired or will expire soon, so that doesn't help much. OSBoxes.org doesn't have Windows images anymore, so that's out.

I found a few other sites that claim to host images, but I'm not sure what's trustworthy and what's not.

My laptop is running : Windows 10 1904 , Geforce 3050, Rayzen 5900 HS, Virtual box (& ext pack) 7.1.4 and Kali 2024.3 VM

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I have these 2, super annoying issues that prevent me from using kali boxes functions & features :

*** 1. ***

ok so this issue is when im trying to "Add" a machine VIA Vbox file ( i aslo trying using note++ to chnage the machine UUID but no luck)

Failed to open virtual machine located in C:/Users/oronb/Downloads/NEW kali-linux-2024.3-virtualbox-amd64-1/kali-linux-2024.3-virtualbox-amd64/NEW 2 kali-linux-2024.3-virtualbox-amd64.vbox. Trying to open a VM config 'C:/Users/oronb/Downloads/NEW kali-linux-2024.3-virtualbox-amd64-1/kali-linux-2024.3-virtualbox-amd64/NEW 2 kali-linux-2024.3-virtualbox-amd64.vbox' which has the same UUID as an existing virtual machine.

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Component: MachineWrap

Interface: IMachine {e36a5081-a82a-40bd-9e4e-42a44d6ce50f}

Callee: IVirtualBox {d644ad1e-c501-4fc7-9ab6-aa6d763bc540}

*** 2. ***

This issue preventing me from copying or pasting from the Virtual mechine to my windows host:

Drag and drop operation from host to guest failed. DnD: Error: Moving to 19,192 (screen 0) failed (VERR_TIMEOUT).

|| || |Result Code:|VBOX_E_DND_ERROR (0x80bb0011)| |Result Detail:|-40 (0xffffffd8)| |Component:|GuestDnDTargetWrap| |Interface:|IGuestDnDTarget {50ce4b51-0ff7-46b7-a138-3c6e5ac946b4}| |Callee:|IDnDTarget {ff5befc3-4ba3-7903-2aa4-43988ba11554}|

It's my first time using a vm (vb ver. 7.1.4-2). Here's what it looks like on the screen, it has this weird fuzzy error look. https://imgur.com/a/VXx1zPP

I am using a 10 year old laptop to practice using vm (Dell inspiron 7447). I have my current one but just to be safe I'll be using my old one. If my old laptop can't handle the vm I guess I have to use my current one. I am using a windows 10 (64bit) iso. Will it get the same error if I used the 32-bit one?

I have a few days off for thanksgiving and got nostalgic and decided to virtualize some of my old computers. It has been interesting trying to locate old versions of acronis and paragon backup software to restore with, and i am now down to one image to get working. It is an HP iq-505 running vistax64

the computer specs were

• CPU Intel Penryn Core 2 Duo T5850 2.16GHz Processor
• Memory Type PC2-6400 800MHz DDR3 SDRAM
• Standard Memory 4GB
• Max Memory 4GB
• Memory Expansion Slots 2 SO-DIMM Slots
• Memory Size 200 Pin
• Original Hard Drives 500GB 7200RPM SATA II 3Gb/sec Hard Drive
• Supported Drives One Internal 3.5 Inch Drive Bay
• Vista x64

booting to the acronis true image on hiren's goes perfect. I can use a file manager on hirens and see the hard drive but I cannot boot vista.

When i try i get :

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix problem:

Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.

Choose your language settings, and then click "Next

Click "Repair your computer".

Status: 0xc000000f

Info:  The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible

and the virtual pc config i am using is

OS vista 64 bit

ram 4gig

processors 2

boot order cd hd

chipset ich9

video mem 128mb

sata hd

audio intel

usb 2

network intel pro 1000

anyone got a suggestion?

So I have a VM behind a virtual router. VM1 is on internal network Router is on NAT and internal. That way the router handles all traffic from VMs and uses a VPN. I’m trying to set up Jellyfin on VM1 but I want to be able to access it via the host too. I’ve tried adding a host network but that just changes all the IPs to the host only adapter. Even if i give each adapter static IPs in different ranges. 192.168.50.x and 192.168.158.x. They both end up getting the same one after a reboot. I tried adding a forwarding rule on the pfsense but that didn’t seem to work either. The WAN Ip I’m seeing on the pfsense is like a 10.0.2.x. I can’t even ping that from the host. What am I missing? What am I doing wrong?

Windows host. Debian VM. Pfsense router. VT-X/AMD-V enabled. Guest additions installed.

Hello everyone! This may be a dumb question so might as well ask it cause I am sure it will harm no one: I want to play an earlier version of Five Nights at Freddy's VR Help Wanted but my computer that has RTX 4060Ti cannot run it, as the hardware is too new for the game, that was made to run on older hardware (the latest version of Help Wanted CAN be played on my computer, but I want to preserve the older versions and play them from time to time). I have seen many people experience similar issues with old games that no longer run on up to date computers and their solution to this problem was a Virtual Machine. I am not sure though which VM might be best for VR gaming. I am aware it might be a struggle to make it work, but I am willing to try, as I will also have the chance to get in touch with some VMs as well and see how they work :)

What are your suggestions, if there are any? Which Virtual Machine might work best? Thanks to anyone who answers in advance!

Hey everyone. I've been struggling with my VM for a while now and I cant really figure the fix
When booting up the kali image I see these at the black screen :
Note--> This happened after updating and upgrading the packages of my system

RETBleed: WARNING: Spectre v2 mitigation leaves CPU vulnerable to RETBleed attacks, data leaks possible!vmwgfx 0000:00:0Z.0 [drm] *ERROR* vmwgfx seems to be running on an unsupported hypervisor.
vmwgfx 0000:00:0Z.0 [drm] *ERROR* This configuration is likely broken.
vmwgfx 0000:00:0Z.0 [drm] *ERROR* Please switch to a supported graphics device to avoid problems.

After this it will give me black screen with there failures :

[FAILED] Failed to start lightdm.service Light Display Manager.
[FAILED] Failed to start plymouth-quit.service Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen.

Here is the logs of my vbox :
https://pastebin.com/i6arPKwD

Im using the latest version of VBOX on windows 10 host machine and running a linux/kali ( 6.11.2-1kali1 ) guest
Im pretty sure HyperV is disabled , Also im using VMSVGA graphic .However, I tried to change for other graphics and increase the video memory but nothing seems to work .Additions for the VBOX are installed

Thanks in advance for everyone who takes the time to try and help !!!

Hello, I'm on a Windows 7 machine with no intent to upgrade. But a lot of my software is sunsetting for Windows 7, so I want to emulate Windows 10 on VB for the unsupported software, since my hardware will not support Windows 11. As I understand it, I need to buy Windows 11 license to activate Windows 10 on the machine.

Which Windows 11 should I buy, the home/pro/enterprise/etc.? I do not want the mandatory security updates and I have heard professional (?) does not require them. If there is ever a security problem on the VB instance...I will just destroy it and reload from backup.

VB version will be 7.1.4, but I need to download it. The one on my Windows 7 machine is from 2022 and is due for an update. Windows 7 seems to work still according to this post.

TIA.

So, I'm using VirtualBox for the very first time, & I want to play some of my favorite childhood Windows 95/98 games (downloaded from MyAbandonware) on my Windows 10 laptop! ^_^ The "how to" guide for setting up the required gear needed to run old games such as these, highly recommended using Virtual CloneDrive. So, I downloaded that, but when I mount the game I want to play, & click on the setup.exe file in the game's ISO bundle to install it, I get a message saying that "This app can't run on your computer." Nevertheless, mounting the game's ISO file, sets up a brand-new drive (G) for everything in the program to work.

Now, remember that Windows 95/98 is the guest OS, & Windows 10 is the host OS.

So, despite thinking that downloading & using Virtual CloneDrive was a complete waste, I nevertheless decided to keep it...but I ALSO downloaded VirtualBox (version 7.1.4 r165100) to try & play the games instead (although I'm certain I will get the same results). However, being a complete & utter newbie to VB, I want to add a virtual machine, but I can't, because it needs to be an XML or VBOX file (which I have no idea how that can be possibly made from an ISO, BIN, or CUE file, let alone via CloneDrive!).

And when I try to add a new drive on VB, I attempt to make the F drive the destination folder; the reason for this, is that this drive never existed until I downloaded & installed Virtual CloneDrive, so I figured that is where the virtual machine is actually supposed to be. So, as previously established, I have attempted (more than once) to make the F drive the destination folder, but THAT can't be done, because I get a message saying that I need to insert a disc into the F drive. But the games are running on a virtual program, not actual physical CDs, so why is it even asking me this?!

I am COMPLETELY & TOTALLY lost, & I have NO bloody idea what to do. :-( I would GREATLY appreciate it if someone could help me out (preferably in simple terms, easy steps, & illustrative screenshots). :-)

I'm moving to a new Win11 PC (N100, 16GB) and I'd like to have a VB instance of Win11 running as a test area. In my previous machine Win10 (i7-3770, 32GB), I had a VB Win11 VM running with no problem. On the new N100 however, VB seems to use an enormous amount of CPU. Even when the guest VM is at low CPU (set to 1 core at 50%), around 10 to 15% idle, the server spikes at 100 the entire time. I feel like there's a setting I'm missing somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. I'm not sure if it's a hyper-v issue or some other software/hardware issue. But this is almost unusable even though I'm seeing many accounts online that N100's can easily be used for this kind of thing when you're only using one VM. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

HI, so i had wifi before some configurations my prof. recommended for a certain exercise and since then i haven't been able to get wifi and i can't undo the confs because i need them to finish doing my lab work, which also is dependent on me having wifi since i can't install firewall

here's the link to the screenshot's i took:
https://imgur.com/a/cgnzXOK

Today when I go to dowload virtuabox the website and the logo changed?!?

Hello there, just a simple question:

Is it possible to install VB + Kali inside on a USB drive then launch and use it only when the USB thumb is plugged in the PC?

Thanks.

Hey, so I have a Windows 10 VM on VB 7.1.2 installed and it's really unresponsive, i'm getting like 2-5 fps on desktop. The VM uses 4 cores out of 12 I have and 8 gb out of 32. Guest additions are installed, I also tried changing the video adapter to VBoxVGA instead of VBoxSVGA, but that didn't seem to help. Virtualization is enabled, what could i do next to improve the performance?
My PC specs are: Ryzen 5 3600, 32 gb DDR4-3600 and RX 580. Host OS in Windows 11, Hyper-v is disabled

So as the title says i need to use a specific dns server, VBOX 7.0.2.2 network settings" ive been alternating between bridged adapter, host only and nat but nothing works, i can use the dns server on my main os (windows) but when i go to the vm i cant access sites, ping spits out temporary naming issue, i have set the dns to be default on the vbox network adapter on windows too and in linux its set up the same way.

Hello everyone I am running Ubuntu Oracle VirtualBox on my windows and I cannot seem to get it to type this symbol "|" everytime I type it, it corrects to "-" Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this issue?

VirtualBox: 7.1.4
Host: Ubuntu 24.04.1 with Secure Boot
Guests: Ubuntu 24.04.1 Server
VirtualBox Extension Pack and VirtualBox Guest Additions installed: Yes, 7.1.4

I have Ub 24.04Server set up and running. (kenel modules have been registered)

NAT works and I can connect to the Internet to update the VM,

Switching to Bridged Mode, I cannot start networking. I have tried
- temporary static address on same network 192.168.0.xx/24 as the Host
- netplan static ip addressing
- netplan dhcp addressing (with my network's DHCP server)

Using "ip a", this is the status output
enp0s3: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_code state DOWN group default
link/etther 00:00:27:40,,,,

Dow anyone have a clue to what is happening?

Thanks

Will something happen when i turn off my Virtual machine while it's running but is not responding? (I chose to just turn it off no hard stop or smth)

Just created fresh new VirtualBox on Windows 10 with Guest Additions. My host has a 2560x1600 resolution. I am unable to resize my resolution to 1920x1080, in non Full Screen I tap on "View" -> "Virtual Screen 1" -> there is options for resolution, but they are not clickable. What to do? Here is a screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/YJeNnVD

Since the two previous attempts to install Windows XP were not successful I downloaded a different Windows XP iso and created a new VM with a new Virtual Disk. It installed and rebooted to read from the Virtual Disk. It continued to install but stalled again while Installing Devices. It had not progressed to the point where I would select the keyboard etc.

Since this is my third VM that has done the same thing. Does anyone think I should reinstall Virtual Box? I unblocked this file before I installed it as an administrator. I added the 7.1.4 Extension Pack.

Information:

VirtualBox Version 7.1.4 r165100 (Qt6.5.3

Host OS Windows 11 23H2 64 Bit

Guest Windows XP Pro 32 Bit SR3

Enabled VT-x/AMD-V 

Disabled -> Hyper-V

• Enabled -> Virtual Machine Platform
• Enabled -> Windows Hypervisor Platform
• Disabled -> Windows Sandbox
• Disabled HyperV

Added Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.1.4.vbox-extpack

Added bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Chipset PIIX3, Controller is IDE. IDE Primary Device 0: Windows XP.vdi (Normal, 2.00 TB), IDE secondary Device O: [Optical Drive] n_windows_xp_professional_with_service_pack_3_x86_cd_vl_x14-73974.iso and Enable I/O APIC, 2048MB Base Memory, TPM None. The system is a AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U with Radeon Graphics, 16GB Ram.

When I run VirBox the turtle gauge shows. I think this means Window Hypervisor is still running.

It has been a loooong time since I installed Windows XP 32 bit on actual hardware.

It has now been about about 190 minutes since the green Installing Devices progress bar has grown to the entire distance to the right. The small square box surrounding one of the five dot five dots in the lower right hand location is moving to the right indicating something is going on. The Installing Windows dot is Orange and the characters are highlighted in Orange. The information Window changes the XP feature periodically. The IDE Primary Hard Drive icon and the IDE Secondary Device DO NOT have any indication they are in operation.

Information:

VirtualBox Version 7.1.4

Host OS Windows 11 23H2 64 Bit

Guest Windows XP Pro 32 Bit SR3

Enabled VT-x/AMD-V 

Disabled -> Hyper-V

• Enabled -> Virtual Machine Platform
• Enabled -> Windows Hypervisor Platform
• Disabled -> Windows Sandbox
• Disabled HyperV

Added Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.1.4.vbox-extpack

Added bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Chipset PIIX3, Controller is IDE. IDE Primary Device 0: Windows XP.vdi (Normal, 2.00 TB), IDE secondary Device O: [Optical Drive] n_windows_xp_professional_with_service_pack_3_x86_cd_vl_x14-73974.iso and Enable I/O APIC, 2048MB Base Memory, TPM None. The system is a AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U with Radeon Graphics, 16GB Ram.

How long should I expect this to take?

as the title says can i add a premade vm that works

I'm running the Peropesis distro in VB and I've sized it to take up half the screen (1600*900 resolution). I'm using another program on the other hand of my laptop screen. But it doesn't change the size of what I'm viewing, so that to see the entire page I have to use the horizontal scrollbar. Any way to make it fit half the screen and resizing the contents so that the font is readable and not too small?

VirtualBox 7.0 Host: Linux Mint XFCE Guest Peropesis 2.8

I am a Newbie on VMs. I have installed VirtualBox 7.1.4 r165100. It seems to open OK. It started the CD iso, I did not press any key, it started installing and I got a BSOD code 7B.

Settings: Chipset PIIX3, Controller is IDE. IDE Primary Device 0: Windows XP.vdi (Normal, 2.00 TB), IDE secondary Device O: [Optical Drive] n_windows_xp_professional_with_service_pack_3_x86_cd_vl_x14-73974.iso and Enable I/O APIC, 2048MB Base Memory, TPM None. The system is a AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U with Radeon Graphics, 16GB Ram.

Anything else I missed. Do I need to do anything with the Virtual Disk once is had BSOD on my several times or does the install start fresh?

I keep creating virtualbox virtual machines and install windows, every install fails to create account with admin rights. I have tried about 10 times on 2 different machines. every install starts up without admin rights and so is basically useless.

What am I doing wrong? I am downloading the WindowsISO from Azure.Microsoft.com

I've setup two shared files from my Windows OS to Linux on my virtual machine using Ubuntu. I managed to setup the shared files correctly and on the Windows side they are showing full access. On the VM though I get a permission denied error when I try to access them, change permissions or do anything related to them really. I've tried using the 'chmod' command as well as 'sudo chmod' but I'm told I don't have permissions to do that either. I can't access the file directory to run those commands in there because I don't have permission and I tried changing file ownership but that didn't work.

I'm stuck with what to do and any advice would be appreciated.

I am encountering an issue on VirtualBox when using a Wi-Fi network.

Since yesterday, I have been trying to get my VMs to obtain IP configurations from my mobile hotspot, but every time I check if I have received an IP address, the interface is empty and DOWN.

I am using a bridged network, and I have specified the Wireless adapter, ensuring it is the same as my PC.

I've also went to the conf files of the VMs to specify the name of the interface and add DHCP.

Here are some of the error messages i get:

2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 08:00:27:b9:ae:d6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

send_packet: No buffer space available dhclient.c:2600: Failed to send 300 byte long packet over eth0 interface. 

Do you have any tips or help on how I can fix this ?