VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE (0x80bb0007), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine, callee nsISupports

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Overview of the Issue

Packer won't build a Virtualbox VM on an ISO image. Error is

==> virtualbox-iso: Error starting VM: retry count exhausted. Last err: VBoxManage error: VBoxManage: error: The machine 'packer-virtualbox-iso-1663686568' is already locked by a session (or being locked or unlocked)
==> virtualbox-iso: VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE (0x80bb0007), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine, callee nsISupports
==> virtualbox-iso: VBoxManage: error: Context: "LaunchVMProcess(a->session, sessionType.raw(), ComSafeArrayAsInParam(aBstrEnv), progress.asOutParam())" at line 727 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp

Reproduction Steps

• Configure and run the following Github action:
  https://github.com/Neudrino/magma/blob/e5066cb59483d080dd72fc1da337c4cd9acee21d/.github/workflows/build-vm-dev.yml#L14-L48

Packer version

Packer v1.8.3

Simplified Packer Template

• See https://github.com/Neudrino/magma/blob/e5066cb59483d080dd72fc1da337c4cd9acee21d/.github/workflows/build-vm-dev.yml#L24-L43

Operating system and Environment details

• Github Runner macos-12

Log Fragments and crash.log files

• See run https://github.com/Neudrino/magma/actions/runs/3091413986/jobs/5001454092.

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This issue has been migrated to hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#85 due to the Packer Plugin split.

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