Booting Fedora-25 in VirtualBox hangs with recent kernels (4.9+) - anybody else?

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi there,

On my laptop I dual-boot Fedora - running it either on the real hardware or
inside a VirtualBox from its native partition.
Thanks to not having persistent information about hardware (registry) -
this works absolutly flawless - in VirtualBox the vbox drivers are loaded
while on the real hardware I get the real drivers including OpenGL and
everything else.

However with recent kernels (~4.9+) the system hangs at the following items:

Starting Hold until boot process finishes up...
Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen...

When I boot with 4.5.4 (fc24 leftover) everything works, the whole
userland/userspace is unchanged.

I wonder ... has anybody else experienced this issue?

Thank you in advance & best regards, Clemens

[Samuel Sieb]

On 03/03/2017 12:22 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> However with recent kernels (~4.9+) the system hangs at the following items:
>
> Starting Hold until boot process finishes up...
> Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen...

I don't use virtualbox, but try removing "rhgb" and "quiet" from the 
boot command line.  That should at least give you more information about 
where it's getting stuck.

Also, you could try booting not in virtualbox, then running "journalctl 
-b-1" to see if there is any information from the virtualbox attempt.

[fedora]

Hi Samuel,
works fine here:

VBox Client:
Kernel 4.9.11-200.fc25.X86_64

Host:

VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.14_112924_fedora25-1.x86_64 on
4.9.12-200.fc25.x86_64

suomi

On 03/03/2017 09:34 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> journalctl -b-1

[Samuel Sieb]

On 03/03/2017 09:59 PM, fedora wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
> works fine here:

Not sure what your point is.  I'm not having any problem, I don't use 
virtualbox at all.