Unable to create virtual machines in VirtualBox

Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 14:35:40 UTC 2019


On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 17:28, Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi list,
>
>
> Besides being unable to create the Windows 10 vm (see original message
> at bottom), I further tried creating Linux virtual machines in
> VirtualBox. But no matter what I do, I cannot ping www.google.com from
> the installer, whereas this always used to be a cinch a few months.
>
>
> Has something changed in the last few months with respect to VirtualBox
> configuration ?
>
> I shall be really grateful to anyone who can get my virtual machines to
> work as expected.
>
>
> Thank you & Regards,
> Manish Jain
>
> On 2019-07-11 00:53, Manish Jain wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I am on a box that was reinstalled 2 weeks back.
> >
> >
> > I earlier used to be able to create VirtualBox virtual machines. But now
> > things are not so good. Now when I try to create a Windows 10 vm, the
> > vdi gets created alright. But when I try to install Windows 10 on the
> > vdi, the installer gets stuck at the stage just after "Copying your
> > files". I think that stage is captioned "Installing your files".
> > Sometimes the installation gets stuck at that stage at 4%, sometimes 8%,
> > sometimes 41%.
> >
> >
> > Is there something I am doing wrong ? I have 'vboxdrv_load=YES' in
> > /boot/loader.conf and 'vboxnet_enable=YES' as well as
> > 'vboxnetadp_enable=YES' in /etc/rc.conf.
> >
> >
> > To be sure, this is a FreeBSD-specific issue. I booted into Linux where
> > I was able to create the Windows 10 vm easily enough.


 I am curious. Can you please point me to the HOWTO that you are following?



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