operating-system: Virtualbox 6.1.32, EFI boot error

Describe the issue you are experiencing

I update to 7.4 and as had been the case lately, updates to new home assistant os versions crashes the virtualbox emulator.

I decided to update from 30 to 32 and was unable to boot at all.

I did a clean install of 7.4 and the issue remained. Downgrading virtualbox to .30 fixed the issue

Here’s a photo of the issue IMG_20220304_112244

Now the system does keep booting. CPU usage on host is very high and the boot takes a very long time. Eventually giving this error

waiting for the home assistant cli to be ready Followed by Cannot connect to the docker daemon at Unix:///var/run/docker.sock. is the docker deamon running?

What operating system image do you use?

ova (for Virtual Machines)

What version of Home Assistant Operating System is installed?

7.4

Did you upgrade the Operating System.

No

Steps to reproduce the issue

  1. Install virtualbox 6.1.32
  2. Try booting an existing or new home assistant os. I tried 7.4, 7.3 and 6.x
  3. Booting will fail

Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us?

Can't get logs if you can't get to cli

Anything in the Host logs that might be useful for us?

N/a

System Health information

N/a

Additional information

I tried older versions to rule out the grub change being the cause

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments: 16 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I can also confirm that virtualbox 6.1.32 caused HA to not boot. I was getting all sorts of errors but they all seemed to end in an rcu error and stalled CPU. Downgrading back to 6.1.30 fixed the issue