Bug: VM does not start up. | ssh to vm on 10.*.148 fails

[jamoore]

The following which works locally fails on 10.*.148, both with the open source virtualbox-ose as well as the proprietary package:

$ sh createVM.sh
...
$ VBoxManage startvm SEPT1 --type headless
$ ssh -vvvv omero@localhost -p 2222
OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu4, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to localhost [::1] port 2222.
debug1: connect to address ::1 port 2222: Connection refused
debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 2222.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/hudson/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /home/hudson/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/hudson/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
...HANGS HERE...

[atarkowska]

First of all the output does not match the script. Second, the problem is not with ssh, but with the VM it self. You could not create because it did not start.

The error is:

VBoxManage startvm SEPT1
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.8
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All rights reserved.

Waiting for the VM to power on...
ERROR: The virtual machine 'SEPT1' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 0
Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component Machine, interface IMachine, callee 

[atarkowska]

​http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32655

[atarkowska]

The problem is with hardware "VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system..." - VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on the 10.2.1.148

[dzmacdonald]

Linux: egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo returns 1 if supported
MacOSX: sysctl machdep.cpu.features | egrep -c VMX returns 1 if supported