VMs won't start hanging with msg "Starting virtual machine - 0%"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Virtualbox |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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virtualbox (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On fresh Ubuntu 16.04 with VirtualBox 5.0.16 virtual machines won't start hanging with msg box "Starting virtual machine - 0%".
The issue is not persistent but once it happens to specific virtual machine, that machine won't start anymore.
Observations:
- Affects both build from Xenial repo and Oracle package
- Both Linux and Windows virtual machines affected but Windows machines cause heavy I/O until all VirtualBox processes are killed
- Tested on Skylake and Sandybridge machines
- Downgrading to 5.0.14 doesn't help
- Removing extensions pack doesn't help
- libvirt@qemu-kvm is working ok
- Nothing useful in log but attached anyway
- No suspicious massages in dmesg
Might be related to system being installed on BTRFS.
P.S.
The issue indeed replated to BTRFS. VirtualBox do not handle COW correctly:
- http://
- https:/
description: | updated |
Changed in virtualbox: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in virtualbox: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Attached script for fixing "broken" VMs.