Guru Meditation -4002 (VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR)

[Oliver Mueller]

I have an Ubuntu 13.04 with Virtualbox 4.2.10 (also tried 4.2.12 with same result!). All my Guests (Windows 2008R2, Windows XP, Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 12.10, ...) are crashing very fast. Most likely after a couple of minutes are some hours with a Guru Meditation. The guests are set up differently. Most only have one processors, some have more than one. All have current guest tools on them.

Logs are attached...

[Oliver Mueller]

Here are the first and last lines of the log, maybe someone else has the same:

00:06:50.137383 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:06:50.137389 !!
00:06:50.137390 !!                 Guru Meditation -4002 (VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR)
00:06:50.148448 !!
00:06:50.148526 !!
00:06:50.148526 !! {mappings, <NULL>}
00:06:50.148529 !!
00:06:50.148541
00:06:50.148541 The mappings are DISABLED.
00:06:50.148547 00000000fd800000 - 00000000febfffff  Hypervisor Memory Area
00:06:50.148557 00000000fec00000 - 00000000ffbfffff  Above 4GB Base RAM
...

...

...

00:06:50.178452 !!
00:06:50.178453 !! {vgagr}
00:06:50.178453 !!
00:06:50.178455 VGA Graphics Controller (3CF): GR index 3CE:08
00:06:50.178458  GR00:00 GR01:00 GR02:00 GR03:00 GR04:03 GR05:4A GR06:05 GR07:00 GR08:FF
00:06:50.178480 !!
00:06:50.178480 !! {vgapl}
00:06:50.178481 !!
00:06:50.178483 read mode     : 1     write mode: 2
00:06:50.178486 set/reset data: 00    S/R enable: 00
00:06:50.178490 color compare : 00    read map  : 3
00:06:50.178493 rotate        : 0     function  : 0
00:06:50.178497 don't care    : 00    bit mask  : FF
00:06:50.178500 seq plane mask: 0F    chain-4   : on
00:06:50.178505 !!
00:06:50.178505 !! {vgasr}
00:06:50.178505 !!
00:06:50.178507 VGA Sequencer (3C5): SR index 3C4:02
00:06:50.178510  SR00:03 SR01:01 SR02:0F SR03:00 SR04:0E
00:06:50.178523 !!
00:06:50.178523 !! {vgatext}
00:06:50.178523 !!
00:06:50.178526 Not in text mode!
00:06:50.178527 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:06:51.180439 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'.

[Frank Mehnert]

Do you have running any other VMM in parallel to VirtualBox by chance, for example KVM?

[Frank Mehnert]

Actually the VT-x code was almost completely rewritten and the next major release will contain many improvements in this regards. Could you install ​this test build and check if you still experience the problem? Even if so then the resulting VBox.log will hopefully show a clearer picture what's going on. The problem with the 4.2.10 code is that the same error code was used for a number of error conditions.

[Oliver Mueller]

I have LXC running as well. Don't know if that is a VMM you have in focus?

Could you provide a DEB or RPM so I can uninstall it after testing?

[Frank Mehnert]

I doubt that LXC is such a VMM because it follows a completely different approach than a virtual machine. But it cannot hurt to stop all LXC containers while you run a virtual machine in VirtualBox to check if it makes any difference.

[Oliver Mueller]

Still using VirtualBox 4.2.10 and having all LXCs stopped. But without any success. Still have Guru Meditations.

[Frank Mehnert]

Did you consider updating the BIOS of your host?

[Oliver Mueller]

We now upgraded BIOS to latest version, but we still have the same problem.

Our mainboard is a Supermicro X8DT3/X8DTI and it has now BIOS R 2.1.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please reopen if still relevant with VBox 4.3.2.

[JoeK112]

I receive the exact same error using v4.3.12 r93733.

Host OpenSuse 13.1. Guest WinXP SP3.

Is there a way to run 3.x on OpenSuse 13.1? I used 3.x for years on CentOS without difficulty, tried upgrading to 4.x once, hit things like this, and reverted. Now on OpenSuse, I don't seem to have that option. Note: I do see the old binaries, just not for my OS version.

Thanks.

[ilkkah]

I get the same error.

• Virtualbox 4.3.16 r95972
• Host Win7 64bit
• Installing quest Win8 64bit

00:00:31.465418 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:00:31.465422 !!
00:00:31.465423 !!                 Guru Meditation 1155 (VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT)
00:00:31.465640 !!
00:00:31.465675 !! Skipping ring-0 registers and stack, rcErr=VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT
00:00:31.465681 !!
00:00:31.465682 !! {mappings, <NULL>}
00:00:31.465683 !!
00:00:31.465717 
00:00:31.465718 The mappings are DISABLED.
00:00:31.465721 00000000fd800000 - 00000000febfffff  Hypervisor Memory Area
00:00:31.465727 00000000fec00000 - 00000000ffbfffff  Above 4GB Base RAM
00:00:31.465731 !!
00:00:31.465732 !! {hma, <NULL>}
00:00:31.465732 !!

I have Vagrant installed on this machine too but of course not running it the same time. Attached the log.

I just re-installed Virtualbox but it didn't help.

I have E8400 CPU and 8 GB of memory. The error happens whether I assign 2048MB or 4096MB to the quest Win8.

I seem to have the latest BIOS (F12E) installed on this mothesboard Gigabyte P35C DS3R.

Running a Win7 64bit quest works ok.

Coreinfo:

C:\Users\ile>coreinfo -v

Coreinfo v3.31 - Dump information on system CPU and memory topology
Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz
Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6, GenuineIntel
Microcode signature: 0000060C
HYPERVISOR      -       Hypervisor is present
VMX             *       Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization
EPT             -       Supports Intel extended page tables (SLAT)

Ok, now that I look at this, it seems that I don't have Hypervisor enabled (no asterisk). Maybe that's why. Maybe I just can't run Win8 quest on this machine?

[Frank Mehnert]

ilkkah, you are actually running Windows 8.1, correct? In that case your guest OS type is wrong!