Virtualbox (7.1.4) won't start

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hello all,

so I installed EndeavourOS on my freshly new installed Laptop (Acer Aspire 15-41M).
Since I need Virtualbox, I installed it right after the OS installation procedure was complete.

I followed the guide provided on the EndeavourOS Discovery page.
I’ve received ‘VERR_NO_LOW_MEMORY’ as an error code when starting a new created machine.
Looks like this:

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To the machine were allocated:

  • 4 out of 6 available CPU Cores
  • 8GB out of 16GB of available RAM

For troubleshooting, I have tried:

  • disabling ‘Enable I/O APIC’ under Settings > System
  • reducing the allocated resources (2 instead of previous 4 CPU Cores, 4GB instead of 8GB previous RAM)
  • increase Video Memory under Settings > Display
  • enable/disable 3D Acceleration

Since all of this didn’t worked out, I’m out of ideas and asking you wonderful community if you have addtional steps I can make to resolve the issue.

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Have you ever tried vmware workstation? I gave up on virtualbox long time ago. vmware just works. Free for personal use now.

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No, I don’t…
But thanks for the advice, looking into it!

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To be clear, VirtualBox should also just work. You’ve obviously hit an issue, but hopefully it can be resolved.

Based on the fix reported here by various people:

  1. Close VirtualBox.
  2. Purge the cache by running:
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
  1. Start VirtualBox and try now.
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I’ve also recently hopped over to vmware workstation from Virtualbox, and have been pleased with the result.

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