For the past couple of months, I’ve been unable to launch VMs on my Manjaro host while running the 5.18 kernel. VirtualBox just hangs on “starting virtual machine.” I had no such problem on the 5.17, 5.16, or 5.15 kernels. Continuing to use 5.15 solves the issue, so this isn’t anything urgent, but I…

I knew this issue. You need to add ibt=off in /etc/default/grub when using 11th Intel CPU and Linux kernel 5.18. Then run sudo update-grub [image] [Testing Update] 2022-06-10 - Kernels, Pipewire, KDE Gear 22.04.2, Haskell, Python, LibreOffice Testing Updates VirtualBox …

Cannot say what your issue is. I am using virtualbox on a daily base - no issues since the 6.1.34 incident. ~ $ uname -r 5.18.15-1-MANJARO ~ $ vboxmanage --version 6.1.36r152435

[image] Zesko: I knew this issue… Perfect! That was exactly it.

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I knew this issue. You need to add ibt=off in /etc/default/grub when using 11th Intel CPU and Linux kernel 5.18.
Then run sudo update-grub

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