VirtualBox 6.1 + Whonix 15 = Aborted

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Hello everyone! I have been using Whonix 14 for a long time and everything have been working fine but unfortunately I need some soft as libreoffice which I can't download there because Whonix 14 isn't supported. I had to upgrade it. I should note that I used VirtualBox 5.3 with Whonix 14. I decided to make new one from scratch. Downloaded Whonix 15 and import it. I faced with the problem that clipboard didn't work. I decided download new version of VirtulBox = 6.1 This is solved the problem with clipboard but I faced with the bigger problem instead . Now after some time (different time ) VM just close without any reason and in main window of virtulbox I see the title "Aborted" . I have several VMs (Whonix 15, Whonix 15, Whonix 14) which usually work together (multiply workstation) and what is strange that one of them work normal (whonix 15) but the other two often crash together in one time. The difference between two whonix 15 is that in one installed psi+ v0.16 . I paid attention to version on psi+ special because it's the version for jessie, some plugins in it work better than in new one. Maybe is that the reason? One more thing I want to note is that I am not cloned first Workstation 15 when I made second Workstation 15 , I just imported all machines again from OVA and then delete second gateway which I didn't need , leaving the second workstation 15.

Info about host

System: Host: user Kernel: 4.15.0-91-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.4.0

Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu4) dm: lightdm Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara

CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-8550U (-MT-MCP-) arch: Kaby Lake rev.10 cache: 8192 KB

flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 15936 clock speeds: min/max: 400/4000 MHz 1: 1900 MHz 2: 1900 MHz 3: 1900 MHz 4: 1900 MHz 5: 1900 MHz 6: 1900 MHz 7: 1900 MHz 8: 1900 MHz

Graphics: Card-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917

Card-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX150] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d12 Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: modesetting,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.05hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Kabylake GT2) version: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.8 (compat-v: 3.0) Direct Render: Yes

Audio: Card Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71

Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-91-generic

Partition: ID-1: / size: 901G used: 452G (53%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1

ID-2: /boot size: 705M used: 368M (57%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 ID-3: swap-1 size: 17.02GB used: 0.70GB (4%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-3

[Frank Batschulat (Oracle)]

We see the following errors related to the guest in the log file:

00:00:28.034286 VMMDev: Guest Log: 16:18:30.726060 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
1194	00:00:38.034928 VMMDev: Guest Log: 16:20:32.891631 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
1195	00:00:48.035436 VMMDev: Guest Log: 16:20:42.892177 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
1196	00:00:58.036014 VMMDev: Guest Log: 16:20:52.892718 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
1197	00:01:08.038989 VMMDev: Guest Log: 16:21:02.895602 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
1198	00:01:18.039530 VMMDev: Guest Log: 16:21:12.896172 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
1199	00:01:28.040131 VMMDev: Guest Log: 16:21:22.896752 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
1200	00:01:38.043763 VMMDev: Guest Log: 16:21:32.900410 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
1201	00:01:48.044376 VMMDev: Guest Log: 16:21:42.901010 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED

However I cannot find any VM abort related error message in the log file. it just ends with this error.

The error comes from:

VBox-6.1/src/VBox/Additions/common/VBoxService/VBoxServiceTimeSync.cpp

591             int rc2 = VbglR3GetHostTime(&HostNow);                                                                                 
592             if (RT_FAILURE(rc2))                                                                                                   
593             {                                                                                                                      
594                 if (g_cTimeSyncErrors++ < 10)                                                                                      
595                     VGSvcError("vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=%Rrc\n", rc2);                                  
596                 break;                                                                                                             
597             }   

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I also attached log which I got through journalctl from workstation.

[adrelanos]

This might be a log from a VM run that didn't have any issues? I.e. you used the VM, shutdown, no issues and later posted a log since you previously had issues?

Could you please do the following:

1) shutdown all VMs

2) find the folder with the Whonix-Workstation-XFCE logs

3) clear that folder, move all logs there out of the way to another folder (or delete)

4) start Whonix-Workstation-XFCE

5) cause the state which leads to VirtualBox showing aborted

6) post that log here (there should now be only 1 log in the log folder of that VM)

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VMMDev: Guest Log: 16:18:30.726060 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED

This is expected in Whonix and probably not the cause. ​Quote:

   ## Deactivate time synchronization between host and VMs.
   ## This is documented in Whonix Design on TimeSync page
   ## Thanks to
   ## http://www.braingia.org/webnotes/2011/06/22/disable-time-sync-with-virtualbox/
   sudo $SUDO_OPTS VBoxManage setextradata "$VMNAME" "VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled" "1"

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logs from gateway

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logs from workstation

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I've added logs from workstation and decided to add logs from gateway too just in case (notice that gateway doesn't abort I turned it off by my self and then save this logs). I did as adrelanos had asked me , deleted everything beforehand from the folder VMs.