[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#800800: vagrant: Running vagrant up to start a VM fails with error

Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs at researchut.com
Sun Oct 4 07:12:03 UTC 2015


On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 16:24 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > The guest machine entered an invalid state while waiting for it
> > to boot. Valid states are 'starting, running'. The machine is in
> the
> > 'poweroff' state. Please verify everything is configured
> > properly and try again.
> > 
> > If the provider you're using has a GUI that comes with it,
> > it is often helpful to open that and watch the machine, since the
> > GUI often has more helpful error messages than Vagrant can
> retrieve.
> > For example, if you're using VirtualBox, run `vagrant up` while the
> > VirtualBox GUI is open.
> > 
> > The primary issue for this error is that the provider you're using
> > is not properly configured. This is very rarely a Vagrant issue.
> > </snip>


From this bug report, there is not enough information on what that
"invalid" state was. Please provide that information, as is mentioned
above. 

"For example, if you're using VirtualBox, run `vagrant up` while the
VirtualBox GUI is open."


Other than that, do you have anything in your system logs ?


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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