Whether you’re setting up a fresh Linux VM in VirtualBox on macOS Catalina (10.15.6), or migrating a VM over from an older macOS version, you can be in for a nasty surprise — once the VM boots, VirtualBox crashes with a mere stack trace.
Personally I tested this with openSUSE, but since there’s similar reports from Ubuntu, this seems a fairly common problem.
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The error and the stack trace will look something along these lines:
The solution is simple, yet all the more annoying: disable audio in the VM settings.
Virtualbox Catalina Image
At a guess, one of the many new security limitations in Catalina is denying VirtualBox permissions and the latter does’t know what to do besides throwing a fit.