Looks like a bad #Ubuntu 20.04 kernel update broke #VirtualBox 6: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/2073267
VirtualBox 7 had some issues with certain versions of Windows which I'm not sure if they've resolved yet, so if you need to go back to a working kernel, you can:
- "sudo apt install linux-image-5.15.0-113-generic"
- Set your GRUB_DEFAULT to "Advanced options for Ubuntu>Ubuntu, with Linux 5.15.0-113-generic"
- "update-grub"
And that should get you back to a usable system.
Bug #2073267 “Virtualbox Guru meditation on VM start caused by k...” : Bugs : linux package : Ubuntu
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2073267 SRU Justification: [Impact] Commit "randomize_kstack: Improve entropy diffusion" changed the kernel stack for entropy to 1KiB, limiting the thread kernel stack to 15Kib. This impacts virtualbox 6.1.50 on jammy, that is no longer maintained upstream. The issue does not persist on version 7.0.20 due to a code refactoring that probably resulted in less stack usage. Fixing it on the jammy virtualbox package side is not straightfoward because the...