VirtualBox hanging at startup

[bsilver1701]

Booted from the 0.2.2 (atomic) iso, and it hung at the booting message. A boot -v flag shows it stopped after "atrtc0: providing initial system time" message.

After troubleshooting on chat, it seems that using the VirtualBox VBoxSVGA video controller allowed it to boot to the GUI; using the VMSVGA would make it hang. I also had it set to 32MB of video RAM, don't know if that affected the bootup, though.

[bsilver1701]

This was using VBox 6.1.26 r145957 Qt5.6.3, MacOS 11.5.1 host.

[carlio]

Same issue for me, with:

Host: Windows 10 Pro version 21H1
Virtualbox: Version 6.1.22 r144080 (Qt5.6.2)

Switching from VMSVGA -> VboxSVGA fixed the issue.

[Theo-codatte]

Same issue on Mojave 10.14.6 and VBOX 6.1.18

Yes, Switching from VMSVGA -> VboxSVGA fixed the issue

Awesome welcome screen'll be fired displayed then !

[mszoek]

I added a Troubleshooting section to the FAQ on airyx.org with something about this issue for now. Leaving it open until we find the root cause.

[grahamperrin]

Not an Airyx issue.

Essentially:

• where guest additions are installed, use VBoxSVGA.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=254266#c7

Side note

I intended a single update to the package message, to cover multiple issues, however I never gained a response to this call for testing:

• CFT: virtualbox-ose on any RELEASE of FreeBSD: virtualbox-ose-additions: audio: input : freebsd

– so I'll go ahead with a piecemeal update to the package message (re: VBoxSVGA alone).

[grahamperrin]

Off-topic from hangs: management of expectations … you might find that the two services don't work as expected. For example: helloSystem/ISO#87; and resizing of windows, which I might have not reported …

[mszoek]

Thanks for the heads up!