I have tried to update Home Assistant Operating System a few times over the last week and everytime it has put my virtual machine into Guru Meditation.
I am currently running operating system version 8.4 and trying to upgrade to 8.5. It seems like things are working (the download happens and then I lose connection to home assistant). I try waiting a bit (5+ minutes) and the home assistant instance doesnt comeback up. So I check the virtual machine and it is in Guru Meditation. There doesnt seem to be a way to exit this short of rebooting the computer (not just the virtual machine) it is running on. Doing so I am able to restart home assistant normally with no issues… This has happened 2 times.
I am running Virtualbox 6.1 on a machine that is running windows 10. Anyone else having issues?
I am running HA on virtualbox 6.1 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS w/kernal 5.15.0.47 X86_64. I just upgraded from 8.4 to 9.0 this morning. It upgraded without a problem.
Is your windows up to date? Do you have enough memory allocated? I use 6gb of 16gb on the machine. I also have 100gb virtual drive. Just thinking of things it could be.
Thanks for the quick response. Windows is waaaaaaaay out of date. I would like to keep it up to date, but I am also using the computer as my TV and currently using an old (hackedish) version of windows media center for the TV side of things. It is my understanding that I would lose access to WMC if I were to update windows. I have looked into switching to something else, but nothing really seems to work with my setup (Harmony remote, etc).
I have 4gb of memory for the virtual machine. I have use only around 1/3 of the storage I allocated the machine (it has around 19gb free). I will try allotting some more memory.
I know there is a newer version of virtualbox (version 7). I suppose I could try updating it? Though I had some issues previously with homeassistant not starting properly (almost a year ago) with version 7…