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Ubuntu VirtualBox - Black screen after *ERROR* failed to send host log message

I'm running Linux ubuntu 20.04 on VirtualBox 6.1 and I'm on windows 10. For the past weeks, it worked almost perfectly, I just once had a problem with a black screen but it was just a video memory ...
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Install a guest Win10 in VirtualBox in Ubuntu 20.04 from ISO

I have followed the instructions here (and posted many places else in various forms, 1) to boot from an iso image of Win10 under VBox in Ubuntu 20.04. I get Fatal: Could not read from the boot medium!...
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Ubuntu iso boot load stuck in Virtual Box

Goal: Run Ubuntu via Virtual Box on Windows 10 Issue: Boot screen stuck at black screen: immediately after the initial purple screen while starting reading from the downloaded ISO ISO downloaded ...
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Ubuntu 18.04LTS hangs at purple loading screen in Virtualbox

I'm trying to run Ubuntu 18.04LTS as a guest machine in Virtualbox on a Windows 10 host, but it just hangs at this screen: And I have the settings for the VM as this: I already have enabled ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 guest OS on a Windows 10 VirtualBox host won't boot

Disclaimer I am not a Linux expert. I use Ubuntu to educate myself about Linux and to run my Kodi media center, so when things go wrong, I like to try to fix them instead of simply re-installing or ...
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