maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 218698] emulators/virtualbox-ose since ~2017-03 guest machines no longer start, RTR3InitEx failed with rc=-8 (rc=-8) where: supR3HardenedMainInitRuntime what: 4 VERR_NO_MEMORY (-8) - Memory allocation failed.

Mon Apr 17 08:21:13 UTC 2017

Graham Perrin <grahamperrin at gmail.com> has reassigned Bugzilla Automation
<bugzilla at FreeBSD.org>'s request for maintainer-feedback to vbox at FreeBSD.org:
Bug 218698: emulators/virtualbox-ose since ~2017-03 guest machines no longer
start, RTR3InitEx failed with rc=-8 (rc=-8) where: supR3HardenedMainInitRuntime
what: 4 VERR_NO_MEMORY (-8) - Memory allocation failed.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218698

--- Description ---
>From <https://discourse.trueos.org/t/-/1249?u=grahamperrin> (2017-04-17): 

> VirtualBox not working properly 3-30-17 snapshot - Help and Support /
External Packages - TrueOS Community

> Since the 3-30-17 update VirtualBox isn't launching my VMs. …

> RTR3InitEx failed with rc=-8 (rc=-8)
> 
> Please try reinstalling VirtualBox.
> 
> where: supR3HardenedMainInitRuntime what: 4 VERR_NO_MEMORY (-8) - Memory
allocation failed.

I'm almost certain that: 

- there was an earlier report from another user of TrueOS
- the symptoms are as I observed on 2017-04-01 whilst using Gitter. 

Ignoring the 2017-03-29 time stamp at
<https://gitter.im/BSDs/FreeBSD?at=58dc1abc7ea420cc421b2d9b> (the stamp is a
bug in Gitter): 

> @grahamperrin tries, fails to start a VirtualBox guest

> @grahamperrin prepares to boot an inferior environment

> Third time lucky, 

$ about

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General information
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boot environment now (N) … 12.0-CURRENT-up-20170331_041352 N 2017-03-31
       after restart (R) … 12.0-CURRENT-up-20170330_080908 R 2017-03-30
boot loader …………………………………… BSD
	    type ……………………… EFI
CPU ………………………………………………………… Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz
    number of cores ……………… 4
host ………………………………………………………
momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook850g2-trueos.university.brighton.ac.uk
memory ………………………………………………… 16384 MB available, 12746 MB free
OS git branch ……………………………………………………………………………………… drm-next
OS git revision ………………………………………………………………………………… d44fdf245
OS kernel build time ………………………………………………………… Thu 2017 Mar 30 18:18:02 UTC
OS kernel identity …………………………………………… (uname -i) GENERIC
OS platform (architecture) ……………………… (uname -m) amd64
OS release level ………………………………………………… (uname -r) 12.0-CURRENT
OS version and patch level …… (freebsd-version) 12.0-CURRENT
TrueOS package set ………………… CUSTOM
TrueOS version …………………………… TrueOS-Desktop-201703201429
uptime ………………………………………………… 13 mins
user  …………………………………………………… grahamperrin

More (TrueOS Desktop):

    desktop environment …… KDE
    sound card driver ………… pcm1: <Realtek (0x0280) (Analog 2.0+HP/2.0)> on
hdaa1  (1p:1v/1r:1v) default
    wireless driver ……………… iwm0
    X11 drivers ………………………… intel_drv.so 

$

> The boot environment from 2017-03-30 is good for VirtualBox.