![]() But still, it freezes the host as soon as you load a VM. I tried a reinstall of the host OS this morning, thinking maybe I was having issues with running out of space on the hard drive.I tried creating a new VM, but it freezes immediately as soon as you select the ISO to mount. ![]() It is very unlikely to be a software issue, as I reinstalled the host OS this morning. I pulled it from the apt repository just this morning. It was working properly last night, but as of this morning, starting the VM freezes. The host OS is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit as is the guest OS and the version of VirtualBox is 5.0.40_Ubuntu r115130. ![]() Starting last night, with no apparent changes to my system, VirtualBox now freezes my host OS when starting any virtual machine. With that done, make sure you have the dkms package installed: sudo apt-get install dkmsĪnd install VirtualBox 5.2 like this: sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2 Now add the Oracle public keys to your system by running these Wget commands: wget -q -O- | sudo apt-key add. I would recommend that you follow the steps here on Oracle’s official site to setup a PPA-a custom “Personal Package Archive”-that will allow your system to get the latest VirtualBox releases and patches.įirst add this line to your sources.list file located at /etc/apt/sources.list: deb xenial contrib A black boot window pops up right before the freeze.ĭeeper in the bug report you can see issues connected directly to VirtualBox 5.0.40 with the recommended solution being to use VirtualBox 5.2.x. With Kernel 4.13 (from linux-generic-hwe-16.04-edge), the host system freezes completely when starting a VM using VirtualBox. ![]() It seems to me you have been bitten by the error reported here titled “Host with kernel 4.13 freezes when starting a VM with VirtualBox”: So you are running VirtualBox 5.0.40 from the default Ubuntu apt repo, correct? The problem is some software packages in repos are out of date and are not regularly updated. ![]() ![]()
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