Vagrant up fails on Booting VM

I have installed the latest release from Ubuntu 16.04.

I installed VirtualBox like that:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox virtualbox-dkms 

and I downloaded the latest release from Vagrant and installed it like that:

sudo dpkg -i vagrant_2.0.1_x86_64.deb 

Then I installed homestead following these instructions

vagrant box add laravel/homestead git clone ~/Homestead cd ~/Homestead git checkout v7.0.1 bash init.sh 

I removed the ssh key line from the Homestead.yaml file.

If I tried to start vagrant with

vagrant up --debug 

then my PC freezes on the Booting VM line.

Here is a screen-shot that I took with my camera:

I have no idea why this is not working. I installed Ubuntu 2 times and repeated all these steps. Always producing the same error. What is causing this issue?

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2 Answers

Re: Vagrant up fails on Booting VM

Hey @Adam I am also getting this problem for last 3-4 days in one of my workstation and didn't look for any solution until today when I upgraded second workstation's kernel. I think this problem is causing of new Ubuntu kernel 4.13.0-26-generic. I have booted to previous kernel 4.10.0-42-generic and tried vagrant up and it worked perfectly for both of my workstations. It is a temporary fix not a permanent solution though.

There is a issue reported to ubuntu here.

You can download virtualbox directly from official site. The follow comment from tobiaskarnat said that:

I can confirm Virtualbox 5.2 from virtualbox.org also works with linux-hwe 4.13.0-29.32~16.04.1 from ppa:canonical-kernel-team/pti which fixes Spectre with IBRS/IBPB.

And I hope Virtualbox implements IBRS/IBPB path through to also allow Spectre protection in vms.