I am not able to power up my workstation or gateway in Virtualbox after I had increased the virtual size of them. I increased the virtual size of Workstation while the gateway was turned on, if its related. It says aborted in virtualbox with the following errors:
So you created a crypto wallet without a backup which you previously tested that could be successfully restored from the backup. Mistake number one.
Quote Recovery - Kicksecure chapter Hard Drive Recovery in Kicksecure wiki
(Whonix is based on Kicksecure.):
B) If a VM got unbootable due to hard drive issues:
Stop using the VM. This is because further use might add further damage.
- Create a full raw copy of the hard drive.
- Make a full 1:1 raw clone of the VM.
- Data recovery. Unspecific to Kicksecure ™.
Data recovery from a VM image is unspecific to Whonix. The normal data recovery process for a Debian installation in a VirtualBox vmdk image applies.
Needs to be resolved as per:
Making a clone and backup of what you have now before trying any recovery is “mandatory”. Your data loss if you don’t.
Quote VirtualBox Mount Disk Image in Whonix wiki:
unspecific to Whonix ™. Use
vboximg-mountas per upstream documentation Chapter 5. Virtual Storage
This might work.
Also the following might work:
Kicksecure ™ in VirtualBox - Troubleshooting - Kicksecure ™ does not Start? chapter INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN GRAIN TABLE AND BACKUP GRAIN TABLE in Kicksecure wiki
Other options:
- A) Hope somebody guides you though it here for free. Unfortunately highly unlikely.
- B) Hope somebody guides you though it elsewhere. Unfortunately also highly unlikely.
- C) Learn data recovery skills.
- D) Hire a professional data recovery service.
Thank you. that “Incosistencey between Grain Table” is what is being shown when I hover over the storage property in VB.
You could also try to change the boot device for the VM. Boot the VM using a virtual (Debian) Live DVD (iso).
Actually after writing this I figured out this might not won’t work. Probably not going to get past vmkd corrupted error.
well, fuck XD
VirtualBox forums has various topics such as:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=78308
Also here:
So you need good search engine usage skills.
thnx, I was there too. I am so exhausted at this point. Been working 2-3 days with no sleep on this shit, and it lost me some good money haha. I’ll keep the vmdks in my system, but I will not touch them again for a while, after I taken some of day to day business.
Leaving this here if someone in the future has a solution: My Gateway was running, the Workstation turned off. then I added some space to the virtual disk of my workstation. Before that, my bitcoin core was already corrupted and monero gui had overfilled the space I guess.
The errors: invalid header and inconsistency with grain table and backup grain table.
Stay safe my dudes and thanks to my future helper