VM Black window - stuck on attempting automated recognition of Virtual machine graphical user interface

[uinguzero]

everything goes fine untill the following step

`Attempting automated recognition of virtual machine graphical user interface.
Please waitVBoxManage: error: Argument aWidth is invalid (must be aWidth != 0 && aWidth <= 32767)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057), component DisplayWrap, interface IDisplay, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "TakeScreenShotToArray(iScreen, width, height, BitmapFormat_PNG, ComSafeArrayAsOutParam(saScreenshot))" at line 1880 of file VBoxManageControlVM.cpp
Please waitVBoxManage: error: Argument aWidth is invalid (must be aWidth != 0 && aWidth <= 32767)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057), component DisplayWrap, interface IDisplay, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "TakeScreenShotToArray(iScreen, width, height, BitmapFormat_PNG, ComSafeArrayAsOutParam(saScreenshot))" at line 1880 of file VBoxManageControlVM.cpp
Please wait      
Failed automated recognition of virtual machine graphical user interface.
Please press enter as directed.

Press enter when the Language window is ready.

However, the window of the VM stays black, i even turned it off en restarted it, but it just stays black........

this is what i see in the vbox.log file

00:00:01.057785 EFI: VBoxDbg> loadimage64 'R:/tinderbox/efi2-6.1/out/win.amd64/release/obj/VBoxEfiFirmware/amd64/RELEASE_VS2010/X64/OvmfPkg/PlatformDxe/Platform/DEBUG/PlatformDxe.efi' 0xdaedc000 LB 0x3600
00:00:01.058192 EFI: VBoxDbg> loadimage64 'R:/tinderbox/efi2-6.1/out/win.amd64/release/obj/VBoxEfiFirmware/amd64/RELEASE_VS2010/X64/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Pci/PciBusDxe/PciBusDxe/DEBUG/PciBusDxe.efi' 0xdaed1000 LB 0xae40
00:00:01.058589 EFI: VBoxDbg> loadimage64 'R:/tinderbox/efi2-6.1/out/win.amd64/release/obj/VBoxEfiFirmware/amd64/RELEASE_VS2010/X64/OvmfPkg/VirtioPciDeviceDxe/VirtioPciDeviceDxe/DEBUG/VirtioPciDeviceDxe.efi' 0xdaecf000 LB 0x1020
00:00:01.058952 EFI: VBoxDbg> loadimage64 'R:/tinderbox/efi2-6.1/out/win.amd64/release/obj/VBoxEfiFirmware/amd64/RELEASE_VS2010/X64/OvmfPkg/Virtio10Dxe/Virtio10/DEBUG/Virtio10.efi' 0xdaecc000 LB 0x2500
00:00:01.364622 GUI: UIMachineViewNormal::resendSizeHint: Restoring guest size-hint for screen 0 to 800x600
00:00:01.365622 GUI: 2D video acceleration is disabled
00:00:01.365649 GUI: HID LEDs sync is not supported on this platform
00:00:01.374160 GUI: UIMachineLogicNormal::sltCheckForRequestedVisualStateType: Requested-state=0, Machine-state=5
00:00:01.374657 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:01.385987 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:02.338237 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:03.333824 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:04.334268 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:05.333618 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:06.333492 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:07.334368 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:08.333646 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:09.333526 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:10.334140 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:11.333695 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:12.334181 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:13.333840 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:14.334489 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:15.333753 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:16.333467 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:17.335949 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:18.334343 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37
00:00:19.333677 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID={4680b2de-8690-11e9-b83d-5719e53cf1de} aComponent={DisplayWrap} aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37

[myspaghetti]

Looks like the VM never makes it past the UEFI/BIOS. Please run ./macos-guest-virtualbox.sh troubleshoot and attach the resulting .txt file here.

[uinguzero]

macOS_troubleshoot.txt

[myspaghetti]

Thanks.

The script attempts to take a screenshot every 5 hundredths of a second instead of every 5 seconds. Could you run sleep --help and check that it interprets the time argument in seconds by default? It's possible you have a different version of sleep that uses a hundredth of a second by default.

If that's the case, and this version accepts s as a unit for the time argument, I'll update the script to use s when specifying the seconds for the sleep command.

Another, probably unrelated issue, is that your VM appears to be using custom CPUID settings. If you set it deliberately that's fine, but if it's not meant to be set then run VBoxManage modifyvm "macOS" --cpuidremoveall

[myspaghetti]

Closing until further information is provided.