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I'm trying to get the famous virtual machines of Microsoft up and running. More specifically those with IE11 on them (so that's the Win7, Win8.1 and Win10 version).

From what I can read on the web this should be a cakewalk. Currently all of them crash during start up (taking a varying amount of time).

PC setup :

Virtualbox actions:

I'm certain that I haven't checked everything, but due to having zero experience with using Virtualbox, I have no idea what the next logical step is. A helpful pointer would be appreciated.

dkms of Virtualbox:

vboxhost, 5.0.10, 3.19.0-30-generic, x86_64: installed
vboxhost, 5.0.10, 3.19.0-33-generic, x86_64: installed
3.19.0-33-generic
vboxpci                24576  0 
vboxnetadp             28672  0 
vboxnetflt             28672  0 
vboxdrv               450560  3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci

VBoxManage showvminfo:

We still have an issues remaining for the Win10 VM:

Additional issue on Win10 VM:

  • Encountered an 0xc0000605 on the Win10 machine
  • Solution: this is related to the time change that you need to do. If I set my time on the Host machine between 01/04/2015 and 15/04/2015 then everything is fine.
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  • Have you installed the Virtualbox Additions? If so, try to uninstall them and restart your VMs
    – LilloX
    Nov 24, 2015 at 8:42

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I just tried IE11-Win7 in Ubuntu 15.10 with same VM version as yours (5.0.10r104061). It boots up well. I'm not familiar with VBox log, but i noticed hard drive errors in all the 3 machines you have.

Your virtualbox host drivers (kernel modules) built well (dkms status) and loaded (lsmod|grep vbox)

From your ls -l output & VBoxManage showvminfo "IE11 - Win7" --details output , quiet different setup.

A quick thought may be you haven't used the VirtualBox import function. It seems like you make manual HDD image setup:

  • Yours is SATA, mine is IDE.
  • I've new .vmdk image created in the VM folder, but you don't have any.

So the correct way is to use the import function of VB to create new virtual machine from a VirtualBox archive.

  1. Move the original files to another folder out of /home/gco/VirtualBox VMs/ example to ~/vm/ie11win7, not a must but clean way to keep VirtualBox VMs only for running machine images.
  2. Open virtual box then delete the old "IE11 - Win7"
  3. From Menu, File → Import Appliance...
  4. Browse to .ovf or .ova file & select it.
  5. Next, then Import (without changing anything, you can change it later).

Then Try launch.

BTW, last step from README.md, that extract .ova, is not needed, VirtualBox can import the archive directly.

I will tell original author to remove extract .ova step add an import step to the instructions. That should help the coming users.

VBoxManage import "IE11 - Win7.ova"

Reference: 8.10. VBoxManage import

Concerning the crashing IE11-Win10, I got this error in the uploaded screenshot

Recovery

Your PC/device needs to repaired
The digital signature for this file couldn't be verified.

File: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Error code: 0xc0000428

Solved by changing my host machine time to before April 15.

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