VirtualBox

Opened 2 years ago

Closed 2 years ago

#20694 closed defect (fixed)

Problems launching VM with VirtualBox > 6.1.26 [fixed in 6.1.32]

Reported by: deckrider Owned by:
Component: VMM Version: VirtualBox 6.1.30
Keywords: VMMR0.r0 SUP_IOCTL_LDR_OPEN VERR_LDR_GENERAL_FAILURE E_FAIL 0x80004005 ConsoleWrap IConsole 872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Windows

Description

My 64-bit Ubuntu VM fails to launch with any version greater than VirtualBox 6.1.26. This is from a Windows 10 host:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Ubuntu.

Failed to load R0 module C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox/VMMR0.r0: SUP_IOCTL_LDR_OPEN failed (VERR_LDR_GENERAL_FAILURE).

Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_LDR_GENERAL_FAILURE).

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: ConsoleWrap
Interface: IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}

Not sure which Component to select (ConsoleWrap is not in the list), so I chose "VMM" since I see that string in the above error message.

I have run VBoxBugReport.exe and will upload the tgz file it created.

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2021-11-27-16-10-32-bugreport.tgz (312.3 KB ) - added by deckrider 2 years ago.

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Change History (6)

by deckrider, 2 years ago

comment:1 by fth0, 2 years ago

The Windows Hypervisor-enforced Code Integrity (HVCI) feature rejects the VirtualBox component VMMR0.r0 (*). A workaround is to disable HVCI aka Memory integrity as follows:

On your Windows host, go to Start > Settings > Update & security > Windows Security > Device security > Core isolation details, turn off Memory integrity and reboot the Windows host.

(*) In the Windows Event Log, under Applications and Service Logs\Microsoft\Windows\CodeIntegrity\Operational, an event with ID 3111 ("The file under validation did not meet the hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI) policy.") is logged.

comment:2 by bird, 2 years ago

6.1.32 should work better with HVCI. Please check it out.

comment:3 by fth0, 2 years ago

I can confirm that the issue is fixed in VirtualBox 6.1.32, BUT:

The performance of VirtualBox 6.1.32 in NEM mode (with Hyper-V), with and without HVCI, has fallen back to the performance of early 6.1.x versions. My Linux and Windows test VMs, which are completely up and running within 30 seconds using VT-x mode (no Hyper-V), now take ~2 (Linux) and ~5 (Windows) minutes to do the same in NEM mode. Especially the Windows VM is unbearably slow afterwards. IIRC, later VirtualBox 6.1.x versions needed 1 minute at max in NEM mode, so the VMs were at least usable.

comment:4 by bird, 2 years ago

We had some non-standard optimization that we were forced to drop in order to support both windows 11 and HVCI, but we'll see if can regain that eventually thru other tweaks. Don't hold your breath, though, as it will take some time.

comment:5 by bird, 2 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
Summary: Problems launching VM with VirtualBox > 6.1.26Problems launching VM with VirtualBox > 6.1.26 [fixed in 6.1.32]
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