Mint 22 host is only allowing one VM to be used??

I always have the strange ones -- LOL

Running VBox 7.0.20 on a Mint 22 host machine. The host works flawlessly.

So; now VBox only allows me to store ONE linux VM and certainly cannot mount two machines at the same time. It flags an authentication error every time. The 4 VM's are running 21.3, and windows 10 Pro. These machines perform flawlessly as well when I mount them.

Error: Callee RC: NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0X80070057)

How do I mount them? I wrote a simple batch script to cd to Home - .config - VirtualBox and once in the directory to rm all the contents. Then I can mount VBox and select any of the machines, and again they run great. I did not have this issue when I was running 24.04, which is using the same kernel.

I did uninstall and re-install VB a couple of times, and in fact I dropped all the way back to VB 6.0x to check that too. Same result so I am almost sure its not VBox but Mint 22 somehow. Strangely I don't see any similar posts on numerous forums.

Hmmmmmm?

 

Did you ask on the Linux Mint forums?
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=231

 

I haven't gone there yet. I tried to go there yesterday but their firewall was blocking my "circuit". I will get creative today and find a way in.

Thanks for the comment and helpfulness. I really do love Mint lately. Ran pure Debian for many years and I just like how Mint Cinnamon feels right out of the box. My family users love it on their machines too.

 

Where do you keep the vms stored?
Mrk

 

My normal VM storage location for the machines is on a separate LUKS volume on the same NVME. My VM's are not stored on the system disk so I don't have to back them up conventionally. I keep them backed up using snapshots and spin out clones in many places.

However; I created a few clones on the system disk just to check out whether or not re-locating the VM's would resolve my situation. It did NOT! Today I took the latest kernel update on Mint 22 and was hopeful that might fix it, again NOPE!

Sorry - fblais but I haven't ventured over to those forums yet!

 

The link I gave is directly to a forum about VMs.

 

fblais,

I just put this post and topic up in the mint forums for VirtualMachines. Busy today but I can circle back hopefully later today. Thanks for the tip.

 

I just wanted to come back to this thread and let you know the situation resolved itself. Mint 22 has had a few updates and VBox is now at 7.1.4x so between these its running smoothly.