Xenial Virtualbox unable to boot many images, including ubuntu/xenial64

[Luis Alberto Pabón]

There's a serious regression on Virtualbox 5.0.18 that prevents it from booting any images which use the LsiLogic SCSI controller; this includes most notoriously... ubuntu/xenial64!

See this bug upstream: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15317

Fix is included in Virtualbox 5.0.20 https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/60565/vbox

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[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

not true. simply not true.
5.0.18-dfsg2build1 has the patch inside.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/5.0.18-dfsg-2build1

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/254650006/virtualbox_5.0.18-dfsg-2_5.0.18-dfsg-2build1.diff.gz

I uploaded it a few hours before xenial release :p

[Luis Alberto Pabón (copong)]

Then perhaps that was the wrong fix, but I can assure you that if you try to boot up ubuntul/xenial64 on Ubuntu's packaged Virtualbox, the machine will go into "gurumeditation" state. Installing 5.0.20 from upstream's website fixes the issue and the vm boots fine.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

ok so please run apport-collect 1580568 in a state when you have the bug, thanks