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Issues with running CHR 7.15.3 ARM64 .vdi with VirtualBox 7.1 on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 4:06 am
by adeebfahim
Hi all,

Just picked up an M3 MacBook Air and wanted to try CHR on VirtualBox 7.1 on MacOS. I have gotten CHR running fine on virtualbox 7.1 on my Windows PC. My purpose of using Virtualbox and CHR is for a school lab assignment. As expected, CHR booted up fine in VirtualBox for Windows on my x86 based CPU. But I am running into issues with bootlooping when trying to replicate on my Mac.

I am setting up the VM as a new appliance. I am attaching the AARCH64 .vdi downloaded from the MikroTik downloads, version 7.15.3. When I go to run the VM, the VM will boot up to the point of showing these three lines in the console:
efi stub: booting into linux kernel...
efi stub: using DTB from configuration table
efi stub: exiting boot services and installing virtual address map

It will then proceed to boot loop until I shut the VM down.

Does anyone have any idea as to what this may be? Thanks in advance

Re: Issues with running CHR 7.15.3 ARM64 .vdi with VirtualBox 7.1 on Apple Silicon

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 10:45 am
by svmrw
Have you solved the problem? Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Exactly the same situation.