New to Whonix, aborted status on Gateway and Workstation

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#1

Good morning,

I have successfully installed virtual box and whonix. Whenever I start Gateway or Workstation individually both VMs work fine. However, when I run gateway and run workstation my mouse freezes up and both VMs close abruptly. The status then states aborted. What am I doing wrong or what did I miss?

#2

Must I add I am installing this on Linux Mint

#3

See General VirtualBox Troubleshooting Steps.

Aborted Status? → See this.

#4

Good Morning Patrick,

Sir, trust and believe that I have tried that solution about 5 times and it didn’t change a thing.

#5

Which solution?

From Kicksecure ™ in VirtualBox - Troubleshooting - Kicksecure ™ does not Start?

Whonix ™ provides VM images that operate inside of the VM. Whatever occurs inside a VM should never lead to a crash (status aborted) of the host virtualization software, VirtualBox.

Unfortunately, I cannot add anything else to that.

The General VirtualBox Troubleshooting Steps include

consider running Whonix ™ from a Linux computer rather than Windows computer, see Host Operating System Selection.

I doubt you switched your host operating system to Debian buster? Because this very most likely wouldn’t happen there.

Therefore the only option left is this:

Consider reporting a bug against upstream VirtualBox [archive] – VirtualBox bugtracker [archive] / VirtualBox forums [archive]. Logs are useful for developers to isolate the problem. [10]

To capture the VirtualBox log:

  1. VirtualBox → right click a VM → Show Log... → Log → Save → OK
  2. Zip the log.
  3. Report to VirtualBox support.

I haven’t seen that happened yet either.